"The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja": Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

"The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja"

Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain

Edited by: Barbara Fuchs , Barbara Fuchs , Larissa Brewer-Garcia , Larissa Brewer-Garcia , Aaron J. Ilika and Aaron J. Ilika

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206456

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Faithfully translated into modern, accessible English, "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja" offer rich imaginings of life on the Christian-Muslim frontier and reveal early modern Spain's profound fascination with the Moorish culture that was officially denounced and persecuted.

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Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. She is author of The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain as well as cotranslator of Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, which are all available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Larissa Brewer-Garcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Aaron J. Ilika is an independent scholar and translator based in Portland, Oregon.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. The Novellas
“The Abencerraje” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
“Ozmín and Daraja” Mateo Alemán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Part II. Contexts
Moorish Ballads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
From Civil Wars of Granada Ginés Pérez de Hita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Edicts and Official Documents Concerning the Moriscos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Edict Ordering the Newly Converted to Change Their Dress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
From “A Petition to the Court” Francisco Núñez Muley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 152
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 2, 2014
ISBN: 9780812206456