Title: Making difference in medieval and early modern Iberia /
Authors: Dangler, Jean.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Spanish literature History and criticism; Literature and society Spain.; Spain Intellectual life
Abstract: "Medieval Iberia was a multicultural territory of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian societies in constant geographic, cultural, political, and economic contact. In this engaging study, Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical literature about the body, and portrayals of the monster. She argues that the texts demonstrate the two fundamental precepts of medieval Iberian alterity: multifaceted subject formation and the embrace of contrasts and the negative." "Dangler explores how the four discourses she analyzes changed in the early modern period from an acceptance of difference to more rigid concepts of subjectivity and the marginalization of difference-a shift accompanying the rise of the Castilian nationstate and its imposition of static hierarchies of value. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Identity and the limits of Iberian alterity -- The lyric body --- The divided body -- The medical body -- The monstrous body.