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9780521801027

Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities

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    9780521801027

  • ISBN10:

    0521801028

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-03
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as 'other' in contemporary texts. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern imperialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Note on translations xiii
Introduction 1(12)
Truth, fictions, and the New World
13(22)
Lying histories, sacred truths
Romance conquest
Training readers
Metropolitan heroics
Literary loyalties, imperial betrayals
35(29)
Epic in America
Civil Moors
Lettered subjects
64(35)
The empire of insurrection
The conquest of the faithful
A lettered empire
Poste restante: letter to an imper(v)ious king
What's in a name?
Christians, Jews, and Moors
Speaking the Spaniards
Virtual Spaniards
99(19)
Spanish Grenadines or Morisco Spaniards?
Saints and sources
Gothic and Anti-Gothic
``Found'' syncretism
Faithless empires: pirates, renegadoes, and the English nation
118(21)
A pirate by any other name...
Renegadoes
Double the pirates
``A girl worth gold''
``I am made! an eunuch!''
Postscript: survival in Utopia
Pirating Spain
139(25)
An empire besieged
A Dragon in paradise
``Moros en la costa''
Captives' tales
``¡Cuan cara eres de haber, oh dulce Espana!''
A welcome romance
Performing captivity
Conclusion: Contra originality 164(3)
Notes 167(29)
Bibliography 196(10)
Index 206

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