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Description

1. xviii, 244 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. The new Middle Ages

Uniform title

1. New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

1. To 1800
2. Travelers' writings, Spanish > History and criticism
3. Spanish American prose literature > To 1800 > History and criticism
4. Race in literature
5. Caste in literature
6. Indigenous peoples in literature
7. HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
8. LITERARY CRITICISM / General
9. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
10. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
11. Spanish American prose literature
12. Travelers' writings, Spanish

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Concepts of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Iberia2. Race3. Caste4. IndigeneityConclusion: The Tourist in the Text.

Call number

1. JFE 15-1164

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Harney, Michael, 1948- author.

Title

1. Race, caste, and indigeneity in medieval Spanish travel literature / Michael Harney.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. The new Middle Ages
2. New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. To 1800

LCCN

1. 2014033975

ISBN

1. 9781137381378 hardcover
2. 113738137X hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 15-1164