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Passing for Spain - Barbara Fuchs

By Barbara Fuchs

Release Date: 2010-10-01

Genre: Literary Criticism

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Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain. Barbara Fuchs analyzes the trope of passing in Don Quijote and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin.
 
In five lucid and engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantesā€™s fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and ā€œLas dos doncellasā€; religion in ā€œEl amante liberalā€ and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and ā€œLa espaƱola inglesa.ā€ She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation -- or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion -- as challenges to the stateā€™s attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects.
 
Fuchs demonstrates the larger implications of this challenge by bringing a wide range of literary and political texts to bear on Cervantesā€™s representations. Impeccably researched, Passing for Spain examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain undermined a national identity based on exclusion and difference.
 

Passing for Spain - Barbara Fuchs

By Barbara Fuchs

Release Date: 2010-10-01

Genre: Literary Criticism

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Passing for Spain charts the intersections of identity, nation, and literary representation in early modern Spain. Barbara Fuchs analyzes the trope of passing in Don Quijote and other works by Cervantes, linking the use of disguise to the broader historical and social context of Counter-Reformation Spain and the religious and political dynamics of the Mediterranean Basin.
 
In five lucid and engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantesā€™s fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and ā€œLas dos doncellasā€; religion in ā€œEl amante liberalā€ and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and ā€œLa espaƱola inglesa.ā€ She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation -- or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion -- as challenges to the stateā€™s attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects.
 
Fuchs demonstrates the larger implications of this challenge by bringing a wide range of literary and political texts to bear on Cervantesā€™s representations. Impeccably researched, Passing for Spain examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain undermined a national identity based on exclusion and difference.
 

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