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Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance

Marina S Brownlee author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:27th Aug '19

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This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes’ final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory.

“I believe this is an important volume that contains essays that are representative of how the reading of Cervantes’ last novel continues to evolve in the twenty-first century.” -- Luis F. Avilés, University of California Irvine * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *

ISBN: 9781487504786

Dimensions: 236mm x 165mm x 28mm

Weight: 620g

328 pages