Disobedient Practices: Textual Multiplicity in Medieval and Golden Age Spain, edited by Anne Roberts and Belén Bistué.
The cultural landscape which characterized Spain from the time of the Muslim invasion to the heights of its Golden Age was tremendously complex. Some scholars have seen in the history of the Peninsula a recurring desire for unification—be it geographic, linguistic, or religious—while others have pointed to the myriad ways in which the unique tri-cultural mix of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian manifested itself. This volume adds to the conversation by examining ways in which textual multiplicity responds to various forms of coerced unification.
The essays grouped in the first part of the collection look at works in which we can recognize a variety of coexisting philosophical and religious models at play. Chapter 1 examines El filósofo autodidacta, a fusion of Greek neo-Platonism with some of the more liberal strains of oriental Islam written in twelfth-century al-Andalus. Chapter 2 shows how a philosophical-theological allegory in the Sumario of a Morisco author may have functioned in the multiple confessional communities of late medieval and early modern Spain. The third chapter looks at a seventeenth-century biblical comedy by Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón, which reworks the Genesis narrative of Lot shifting between different models of divine and civil obedience.
The second half of the volume focuses on literary writing practices and mechanisms in which we can see a response to the unifying impulse. Chapter 4 examines regulatory and narrative determinism in late fifteenth century Castile as it is critiqued by the acrostic which opens Celestina. Chapter 5 considers maurophilia and maurophobia in Castilian literary works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while chapter 6 looks at shifting viewpoints of the bufón-cronista in the mock historical chronicle of Don Francés de Zúñiga. Chapter 7 shows how the echoes of defiant Golden Age practices reverberate in a recent theatrical performance of the works of María de Zayas. Chapter 8 ends the collection by focusing on the ways in which Cervantes plays with two distinct textual models that seem to coexist in Don Quixote: one which appears to offer multiple narrative layers and one which does not.
This book is in English and Spanish.
Contents
Introduction; Anne Roberts and Belén Bistué
Part I: Philosophical and Religious Multiplicity
1. The Disobedient Philosopher: Subtle Humanistic Insurgence in Ibn Tufayl; Emilio González Ferrín
2. From Conversion to Consolation: Iberian Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Takes on the Trinity; Michelle M. Hamilton
3. Diversidad en el tratamiento bíblico de la desobediencia al rey y la fidelidad a Dios y sus relecturas en el teatro barroco español; Francisco Peña
Part II: Fictional Multiplicity
4. The Polysemia of Celestina; Anne Roberts
5. La ubicua presencia del moro: Maurofilia y maurofobia literaria como productos de consumo cristiano; Ana Benito
6. Cronistas sin mordaza: inimputabilidad del loco y multiplicidad de modelos en la Crónica burlesca de Don Francés de Zúñiga; María Ester Vazquez
7. Multiplicidad en el abordaje escénico de la poética de María de Zayas y Sotomayor en la obra Amar el día, aborrecer el día; Norma Ambrosini y Diego Stocco
8. Of First and Second Authors: Reading Don Quixote in the Context of Collaborative Translation Practices; Belén Bistué
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Series: Estudios de literatura medieval «John E. Keller», 9
ISBN: 978-1-58871-261-5 (PB, 186 pp.) $40