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Author:

Harney, Michael, 1948- author.

Title:

Race, caste, and indigeneity in medieval Spanish travel literature / Michael Harney.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xviii, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, Spanish--History and criticism.
Spanish American prose literature--To 1800--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Caste in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Caste in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Race in literature.
Spanish American prose literature.
Travelers' writings, Spanish.
To 1800
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Concepts of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Iberia -- 2. Race -- 3. Caste -- 4. Indigeneity -- Conclusion: The Tourist in the Text.

Summary:

"The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization, and of associated caste hierarchies in various Latin American regions and societies, are in many ways traceable to the medieval Iberian Peninsula during the era of the so-called Reconquest (eleventh through fifteenth centuries). Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity during a period straddling the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration, conquest, and colonization (early-thirteenth through mid-sixteenth centuries), this study explores the already highly internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe as revealed in various kinds of travel narrative. The works surveyed include conquest narratives, touristic and diplomatic diaries, gazetteers, chivalric romances and biographies, pilgrimage accounts, and political essays. Despite their stylistic and thematic variety, the works are linked by a shared compulsion to go forth among alien folk, and by a Eurocentric obsession with ethnicity, status, native identity, and what we would call globalization"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

The new Middle Ages

ISBN:

113738137X
9781137381378

OCLC:

(OCoLC)890360418

LCCN:

2014033975

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)