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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Table of contents 7 Figures 9 Acknowledgements 11 Note on translations 13 Introduction 15 1 Theorising and practising nobility 35 2 The forgery of nobility in literary texts 61 3 Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses 113 4 The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts 138 5 Imagining the Morisco problem 165 6 Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts 198 Conclusion 227 Bibliography 235 Index 251 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9781784996970,Language:English,OCLC:981882713 This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for ‘pure’ Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish

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Author

Lee, Christina Hyo Jung

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526134349

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Romance