Passing for Spain - CERVANTES AND THE FICTIONS OF IDENTITY (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Hispanisms
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	March 2003
Authors:	Barbara Fuchs
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-02781-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-252-02781-7
Barcode:	9780252027819

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