Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature

By Edited by Marieta Cantos Casenave

Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into them as 'others'? By engaging with shifting ideas of exclusion and difference, the authors in this book reflect upon the paradoxical centrality of the subaltern at a time when literature was deployed as a tool for nation building. The lasting presence of the Jewish and Moorish legacy, the portrayal of gypsy characters, or the changing notions of femininity in public discourse exemplify the ways in which images of marginal 'types' played a central role in the configuration of the very idea of Spanishness.

Cu les fueron los mecanismos mediante los que ciertos grupos fueron relegados a los m rgenes del relato nacional durante el siglo XIX, bien a trav s de su exclusi n de dichos relatos, bien a trav s de su incorporaci n a ellos como "otros"? A trav s del an lisis de las ideas de exclusi n y diferencia, los autores de este libro reflexionan sobre la parad jica centralidad de lo marginal en una poca en la que la literatura fue una herramienta fundamental para la construcci n de la naci n. La pervivencia del legado jud o y morisco, la representaci n de personajes gitanos o las distintas nociones de feminidad presentes en el discurso p blico ejemplifican las formas en que las im genes de "tipos" marginales desempe aron un papel central en la configuraci n de la idea de espa olidad.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900451533X
• ISBN13: 9789004515338
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"