{"product_id":"dystopias-of-infamy-javier-irigoyen-garca-9781684484010","title":"Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain","description":"Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse--frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter--are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, \u003ci\u003eDystopias of Infamy\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes's tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Javier Irigoyen-Garc?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684484014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684484010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Javier Irigoyen-Garc?","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078601863423,"sku":"9781684484010","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5a4d89f-827c-4f27-8c2d-f862d259eb00.jpg?v=1685476442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dystopias-of-infamy-javier-irigoyen-garca-9781684484010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}