Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY

Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY (Hispanisms)

Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain. Barbara Fuchs analyzes the trope of passing in Don Quijote and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin. In five lucid and engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantes's fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and "Las dos doncellas"; religion in "El amante liberal" and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and "La espanola inglesa." She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation--or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion--as challenges to the state's attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects. Fuchs demonstrates the larger implications of this challenge by bringing a wide range of literary and political texts to bear on Cervantes's representations. Impeccably researched, Passing for Spain examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain undermined a national identity based on exclusion and difference.
Country USA
Brand University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer University of Illinois Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780252027819
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780252027819
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Passing for Spain: CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY (Hispanisms)