{"product_id":"passing-for-spain-barbara-fuchs-9780252027819","title":"Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity","description":"\u003ci\u003ePassing for Spain\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In five lucid and engaging chapters, Fuchs examines what passes in Cervantes's fiction: gender and race in Don Quijote and \"Las dos doncellas\"; religion in \"El amante liberal\" and La gran sultana; national identity in the Persiles and \"La española inglesa.\" She argues that Cervantes represents cross-cultural impersonation -- or characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion -- as challenges to the state's attempts to assign identities and categories to proper Spanish subjects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fuchs demonstrates the larger implications of this challenge by bringing a wide range of literary and political texts to bear on Cervantes's representations. Impeccably researched, \u003ci\u003ePassing for Spain\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the fluidity of individual identity in early modern Spain undermined a national identity based on exclusion and difference. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Fuchs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252027817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252027819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.14w x 0.73d","brand":"Barbara Fuchs","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086438641919,"sku":"9780252027819","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be3e1d97-8c3a-4bd9-8ceb-27ea1e91fedb.jpg?v=1769094670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/passing-for-spain-barbara-fuchs-9780252027819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}