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Race, caste, and indigeneity in medieval Spanish travel literature
- Title
- Race, caste, and indigeneity in medieval Spanish travel literature / Michael Harney.
- Author
- Harney, Michael, 1948-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- xviii, 244 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization, and of associated caste hierarchies in various Latin American regions and societies, are in many ways traceable to the medieval Iberian Peninsula during the era of the so-called Reconquest (eleventh through fifteenth centuries). Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity during a period straddling the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration, conquest, and colonization (early-thirteenth through mid-sixteenth centuries), this study explores the already highly internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe as revealed in various kinds of travel narrative. The works surveyed include conquest narratives, touristic and diplomatic diaries, gazetteers, chivalric romances and biographies, pilgrimage accounts, and political essays. Despite their stylistic and thematic variety, the works are linked by a shared compulsion to go forth among alien folk, and by a Eurocentric obsession with ethnicity, status, native identity, and what we would call globalization"--
- Series Statement
- The new Middle Ages
- Uniform Title
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subjects
- Spanish American prose literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Caste in literature
- HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
- Indigenous peoples in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
- Spanish American prose literature > To 1800 > History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Race in literature
- Travelers' writings, Spanish > History and criticism
- To 1800
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Concepts of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Iberia2. Race3. Caste4. IndigeneityConclusion: The Tourist in the Text.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-1164
- ISBN
- 9781137381378
- 113738137X
- LCCN
- 2014033975
- OCLC
- 890360418
- Author
- Harney, Michael, 1948- author.
- Title
- Race, caste, and indigeneity in medieval Spanish travel literature / Michael Harney.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The new Middle AgesNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1800
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-1164