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.
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