LEADER 04144nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910825068303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89118-2 010 $a0-8122-0735-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207354 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104590 035 $a(OCoLC)802048890 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576143 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818854 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818854 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10843490 035 $a(PQKB)10387107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737343 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469217 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737343 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10784216 035 $a(PQKB)11323967 035 $a(DE-B1597)449516 035 $a(OCoLC)1024036807 035 $a(OCoLC)1029836137 035 $a(OCoLC)979628229 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441702 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104590 100 $a20080916d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExotic nation $emaurophilia and the construction of early modern Spain /$fBarbara Fuchs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cPENN$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-2173-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Quotidian and the Exotic --$t2. In Memory of Moors: History, Maurophilia, and the Built Vernacular --$t3. The Moorish Fashion --$t4. Playing the Moor --$t5. The Spanish Race --$tPostscript: Moorish Commonplaces --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 and the subsequent repression of Islam in Spain, Moorish civilization continued to influence both the reality and the perception of the Christian nation that emerged in place of al-Andalus.In Exotic Nation, Barbara Fuchs explores the paradoxes in the cultural construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices. Between 1492 and the expulsion of the Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity) in 1609, Spain attempted to come to terms with its own Moorishness by simultaneously repressing Muslim subjects and appropriating their rich cultural heritage. Fuchs examines the explicit romanticization of the Moors in Spanish literature-often referred to as "literary maurophilia"-and the complex, often silent presence of Moorish forms in Spanish material culture. The extensive hybridization of Iberian culture suggests that the sympathetic depiction of Moors in the literature of the period does not trade in exoticism but instead reminded Spaniards of the place of Moors and their descendants within Spain. Meanwhile, observers from outside Spain recognized its cultural debt to al-Andalus, often deliberately casting Spain as the exotic racial other of Europe. 606 $aMuslims$zSpain$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, Spanish 607 $aSpain$xHistory$y711-1516 607 $aSpain$xCivilization$xIslamic influences 607 $aSpain$xEthnic relations 615 0$aMuslims$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Spanish. 676 $a946/.02 700 $aFuchs$b Barbara$f1970-$0176857 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825068303321 996 $aExotic nation$94057404 997 $aUNINA