Signs of spectacular resistance
Subtitle: the Spanish Moor and British orientalism
By: Khalid Bekkaoui
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Morocco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9789981191006
Subjects: Muslims in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature
Other titles: Spanish Moor and British orientalism
Description: Ranging as it does from Dekker to Stockdale, from the end of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries, this book returns us again and again to those moments when the contradictory states of releasing and enslaving become peculiarly enmeshed in each other. In this illuminating work, the Spanish Moors... emerge in all their perplexing 'betweenness' as being capable of enslaving their captors. Bekkaoui convincingly argues that the Spanish Moor fulfills the role of a spectrum mentis on the English stage; to act as simulacrum of fear and loathing, but also of admiration and desire. Abandoned by history, the Spanish Moorʹs liminal nature provides Dekker, Dryden, Congreve, Stockdale and numerous others with a theatrical space where they can entertain and explore ambivalent emotions about nationhood and historical destiny... -- Back cover (abridged).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-207).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Theoretical background. 1. Saidʹs orientalism; title: - 2. Heterogeneity of colonial discourse; title: - 3. From ambivalence to resistance; title: Part II. Case studies. 1. "Hell is a dream": counter-stereotypical discourse in Lustʹs Dominion; title: - 2. The conquest of Granada and anxieties of conquest; title: - 3. Strategies of resistance in the "The Mourning Bride"; title: - 4. Ximenes and the unsettling of orientalism; title: Conclusion.