Javier Irigoyen-García

Dystopias of Infamy

Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious, political, and literary texts, including the works of Cervantes, Dystopias of Infamy reconsiders how insults and infamy were imagined as potential sites of resistance to subjectification in early modern Spain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781684484010
• ISBN-10: 1684484014
• Artikelnr.: 62812252

Autorenporträt

JAVIER IRIGOYEN-GARCÍA is a professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain and "Moors Dressed as Moors": Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Names full of vituperations"
1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters
2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence
3. Dystopias of Infamy
4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy
5. "They did not bray in vain": History, Insult, and Collective Identity
Epilogue: Spanish History as sambenito
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index