Transforming the enemy in Spanish culture
Subtitle: the conquest through the lens of textual and visual multiplicity
By: Lauren Beck
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781604978544
Subjects: America; Discovery and exploration; Spanish; Civilization; Ethnic relations; Colonies; Administration; Treatment of Indians; Muslims; History; Enemies; Black Legend (Spanish history)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Naming the enemy; title: Envisioning the enemy : anachronism, allegory and adaptation; title: From edenic Indians to Muslim Aztecs : transcribing Islam from the Old World to the New World; title: Visualising Islam in the New World : the crescent moon and the mosques of Mexico, Peru and Brazil; title: Transatlantic travels of Muslims in the sixteenth century : the sources; title: The de-occidentalisation of the conquest : the examples of Las Casas, Herrera and Acosta.