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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453841603321

Autore

Irigoyen-García Javier <1975->

Titolo

The Spanish Arcadia : sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain / / Javier Irigoyen-García

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6766-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

Toronto Iberic

Disciplina

306.09460903

Soggetti

Shepherds - Spain - Social life and customs

Sheepherding - Spain - History

Pastoral systems - Spain - History

Pastoral literature, Spanish - History and criticism

Spanish literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Shepherds in literature

Ethnology - Spain - History

Electronic books.

Spain Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Country of Shepherds -- Part One: Sheep Herding and Ethnocentrism in Early Modern Spain -- 1. Sheep Herding and Discourses on Race -- 2. Rustic Culture and the Invention of the Spanish People -- 3. In the Land of Pan: Pastoral Classicism and Historiography -- Part Two: Contesting Ethnocentrism within the Arcadia -- 4. The Moor in Arcadia -- 5. Imagining the Spanish Arcadia after 1609 -- Conclusion: Pan's Labyrinth -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity.



Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-García argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity.The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-García provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.