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001 2014033975
003 DLC
005 20151203081257.0
008 140924s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014033975
020 $a9781137381378 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-sp---
050 00 $aPQ6134.T73$bH37 2015
082 00 $a860.9/32$223
084 $aHIS045000$aLIT000000$aLIT004280$aLIT011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHarney, Michael,$d1948-
245 10 $aRace, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Spanish Travel Literature /$cMichael Harney.
263 $a1502
264 1 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe New Middle Ages
520 $a"The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization, and of associated caste hierarchies in various Latin American regions and societies, are in many ways traceable to the medieval Iberian Peninsula during the era of the so-called Reconquest (eleventh through fifteenth centuries). Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity during a period straddling the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration, conquest, and colonization (early-thirteenth through mid-sixteenth centuries), this study explores the already highly internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe as revealed in various kinds of travel narrative. The works surveyed include conquest narratives, touristic and diplomatic diaries, gazetteers, chivalric romances and biographies, pilgrimage accounts, and political essays. Despite their stylistic and thematic variety, the works are linked by a shared compulsion to go forth among alien folk, and by a Eurocentric obsession with ethnicity, status, native identity, and what we would call globalization"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Concepts of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity in Medieval Iberia2. Race3. Caste4. IndigeneityConclusion: The Tourist in the Text.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, Spanish$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSpanish American prose literature$yTo 1800$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aCaste in literature.
650 0 $aIndigenous peoples in literature.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.$2bisacsh