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The Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
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The Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern European History
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This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and
racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of
texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant
Spaniards' anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos
(converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could
impersonate and pass for 'pure' Christians like themselves.
Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural
and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in
some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish
identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that
separated them from the undesirables of society - and therefore the
recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and
accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies,
European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish
history. -- .
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