Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance

Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance
ISBN-10
1487530897
ISBN-13
9781487530891
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2019-08-22
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Author
Marina S. Brownlee

Description

This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes’ final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory.

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