Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries
before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia,
he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern
Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric
romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent
Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds
of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and
Spanish influence in the centuries to come.
"Death in Babylon "depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of
Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy,
and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly
celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining
literary and historical works in Aljamiado, Castilian, Catalan,
Greek, Latin, and Portuguese, "Death in Babylon" develops a view of
empire and modernity informed by the ethical metaphysics of French
phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A novel contribution to the
literature of empire building, "Death in Babylon" provides a frame
for the deep mortal anxiety that has infused and given shape to the
spread of imperial Europe from its very beginning.
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