Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004515338)

Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into them as 'others'? By engaging with shifting ideas of exclusion and difference, the authors in this book reflect upon the paradoxical centrality of the subaltern at a time when literature was deployed as a tool for nation building. The lasting presence of the Jewish and Moorish legacy, the portrayal of gypsy characters, or the changing notions of femininity in public discourse exemplify the ways in which images of marginal 'types' played a central role in the configuration of the very idea of Spanishness.

Cu疝es fueron los mecanismos mediante los que ciertos grupos fueron relegados a los m疵genes del relato nacional durante el siglo XIX, bien a trav駸 de su exclusi de dichos relatos, bien a trav駸 de su incorporaci a ellos como "otros"? A trav駸 del an疝isis de las ideas de exclusi y diferencia, los autores de este libro reflexionan sobre la paradica centralidad de lo marginal en una 駱oca en la que la literatura fue una herramienta fundamental para la construcci de la naci. La pervivencia del legado jud卲 y morisco, la representaci de personajes gitanos o las distintas nociones de feminidad presentes en el discurso p炻lico ejemplifican las formas en que las im疊enes de "tipos" marginales desemperon un papel central en la configuraci de la idea de espalidad.

Author: Marieta Cantos Casenave
ISBN-10: 900451533X
ISBN-13: 9789004515338
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover