Download or read book Peninsular Identities Transatlantic Crossings and Iberian Networks written by Mark Gant and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume promotes recent and innovative research in different areas of knowledge within the scope of Iberian studies, contributing to the deepening and dissemination of this expanding research area. This book makes available new approaches to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American spaces and cultures, with particular emphasis on Portuguese-Galician, Basque and Catalan identities produced in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and during dictatorship. A considerable number of chapters discuss issues of memory, reflecting the impact of the Historical Memory Law in Spain and its lively discussion in the public sphere. Social mobilization and economic dynamics also play an important role in this volume. In addition, transatlantic contacts with Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries are covered, giving expression to the most recent trends in Iberian studies, which is broadening its scope to exchanges and influences between the Iberian Peninsula and South America and Africa. This volume will be of interest to students, developing and established researchers, and experts in Iberian studies.

Download or read book Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula written by Clare Mar-Molinero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism has recently been the focus of considerable interest, but relatively little is known about nation-building and competing identities in Spain and Portugal. In examining the roots of Iberian nationalism, and the conflicts and tensions which have come to the fore in the twentieth century, this timely collection offers a broad interdisciplinary base and socio-historical context through which to understand the region's nationalist challenges. Topics include:- how nationalism is constructed and used as a tool by political groups;- how language is used as a nationalist emblem; and- how cultural representations of nationalism manifest themselves at both a popular level and at the level of elites.This book will provide a welcome addition to Iberian studies and invaluable insights for students and specialists alike.

Download or read book Transcultural Spaces and Identities in Iberian Studies written by Mark Gant and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together innovative research across the diverse field of Iberian Studies, including insights from economics, society, politics, literature, cinema and other art forms, either in a revisionist perspective or incorporating new data. Reflecting recent developments in the field, the subject matter extends beyond the boundaries of Spain and Portugal, as it also includes transnational and transatlantic interconnections with Europe, Africa and the Americas and its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit. The 18 chapters here are authored by established academics and early career researchers from the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and the USA. The book will appeal to students, researchers and all who have a particular interest in deepening their understanding of the countries of the Iberian Peninsula.

Download or read book Transatlantic Studies written by Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel and published by Contemporary Hispanic and Luso. This book was released on 2019 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Download or read book Transatlantic Figures in Early Modern Spain 1550 1650 written by Pablo García Piñar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the strategies developed by three interconnected transatlantic literary figures to approach the new context of power relations, in the Iberian Peninsula, and how their literary production reflects these strategies. I study specifically the works of the chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and playwrights Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Tirso de Molina. I propose to focus on their strategies to navigate the agitated waters of the Spanish court, and to interact with the members of the illustrious peninsular circles. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Castilian conquistador named Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and of an Inca princess named Chimpu Ocllo, represents the figure of the mestizo. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, born in Mexico to a family that exploited mines, personifies the figure of the criollo. Tirso de Molina, pseudonym of the friar of the order of Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy Gabriel Tellez, embodies the figure of the Spaniard who returned from the New World. Each of these figures is associated with a distinct region of the vast Spanish empire: the Inca Garcilaso comes from the viceroyalty of Peru, while Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was born in New Spain, and friar Gabriel Téllez visited the island of La Española between 1616 and 1618, before coming back to the Peninsula. Through this study, the atlantic space is conceived as a means of communication that connects everything. Through it, the European kingdoms and! their colonies on both sides become intertwined in a network of connexions. The traffic of the routes crossing the Atlantic Ocean thus forges a subjectivity, the identity of which is dependant on this circuit. Born from this traffic, the subject who comes and goes is named the transatlantic subject. A witness of the modes of structuration of social relationships both in the metropolis of the Empire and in the colonies themselves, the transatlantic subject will determine their transformation. The historical period this study covers begins with the year of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's birth, 1539, only seven years after the first encounter between Francisco Pizarro and the Inca Emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca, in 1532. It ends with the death of playwright Tirso de Molina in 1648. Spreading across a century, it also encompasses the reign of four Spanish monarchs: Charles V, Philip II, Philip III and Philip IV. During this period, the figure of the indiano was affected by the growing dependence of the Iberian Peninsula on the transatlantic traffic and commerce with the colonies. During the reign of Philip II, the expansion of the administrative apparatus of the state, which extended its tentacles into the transatlantic trade in order to take advantages of its newly conquered territory, reached its climax. During the reign of his successor, Philip III, and of his favorite the duke of Lerma, the social advance experienced by the officials of the state, who begin to conceive of their administrative mandate as a material possession that might be acquired by money, animates other classes to find new means of achieving a higher social standing. This behavior was imitated by powerful indianos, who looked to acquire titles of nobility through purchase or marriages with noble families in want of money. The first chapter, "A mestizo Courtisan: the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega", studies the Peruvian chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, one of the earliest figures to engage in the transatlantic voyage and develop his literary production in the Iberian Peninsula.! In it, I analyze how the mestizo chronicler conceived of and composed a public image of himself as a transatlantic subject in determined moments of his literary production, most notably in his introduction to the Diálogos de Amor by León Hebreo (Madrid, 1598) and his chronicles, the Comentarios reales de los Incas (Lisboa, 1609) and the Historia general del Perú (Córdoba, 1617). Unlike other authors such as Juan Ruiz de Alarcón who resist discourses that, in the Iberian peninsula, impose a particular vision of transatlantic identity upon the subjects who participate into the transatlantic circuit, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega succeeded, I argue, in forming his own subjectivity outside of the coordinates of the emerging stereotypical image of the indiano. The key to his success in preventing his identity as a transatlantic subject from being defined by these discourses, I argue, resides in his ability to fashion himself to the noble discourses of the Peninsula. His family background - he was a descendant of the Castillian hidalgo Sebastián Garcilaso de la Vega and of the Inca emperor Túpac Yapanqui - allowed him to present himself as a mediator between the Spanish and the Inca cultures. At the same time, he presented himself as a courtisan, an image that distanced him from that of a plebeian who made his fortune in the Indies and who claimed to be part of the noble class through the purchasing of titles or marriages of convenience. In my second chapter, entitled "Deformity and Stereotype in Juan Ruiz de Alarcón", I study the playwright from New Spain's resistance to the rejection he endured from the Madrid court, owing to his physical appearance and his American origins. The Council of the Indies refused to appoint him to an administrative position for several years, citing his severe vertebral and thoracic malformation. The most illustrious authors of the Court, from Lope de Vega to Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de! Góngora, publicly humiliated him for his bodily appearance, as well as for being indiano. The stereotype of the indiano in Golden Age theater was highly marked by physical appearance, and especially the inability to go unnoticed. The indiano was represented in a grotesque fashion on stage, disguised with extravagant outfits and a character with irritating mannerisms. Ruiz de Alarcón showed his repulsion for these constructions around the pretended physical appearance of the indiano in his comedy, Las parades oyen, which develops a poetics of the beauty of the soul. In this play, the character of don Juan, a man who is also a victim of a physical malformation, earns the love of doña Ana through the unfurling of his goodness or the real criteria of beauty - that of the soul. In his most famous play, La verdad sospechosa, the playwright from New Spain undermined the usual mechanisms through which the society of the court constructed the stereotype of the figure of the indiano. Through the character of don García, a compulsive liar who fakes that he is an indiano in order to seduce a woman from Madrid, Ruiz de Alarcón demonstrates how these stereotypes were based upon incorrect premises. In reality, he argues, they were but a series of anxieties, felt by metropolitan Spanish society in the seventeenth century. The third and final chapter of the dissertation, "Mirroring Rebellion: Tirso de Molina's Amazonas en las Indias", considers how playwright Tirso de Molina justified his political opposition to the regime of the count-duke of Olivares through the figure of Gonzalo Pizarro, leader of the rebellion of the encomenderos, which took place in Peru from 1544 to 1548. The contorted reconstruction of the events that is conveyed by the jurisconsult Fernando Pizarro y Orellana, an idealized portrait of the leader of the uprising that formed a whole propagandistic apparatus put into play in order to rehabilitate the image of the Pizarro family from Extremadura, drew the! attention of friar Gabriel Téllez, exiled from the court and betrayed by his own companions of the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. In his Amazonas en las Indias, Tirso submits the legitimacy of the rebellious act to a trial when it is accomplished in a search to better the State and the institution of the crown. Both rebellions - the upraising of the encomenderos and the composition of the Amazonas en las Indias - I argue, are ultimately a service to the State. In Tirso's play, Gonzalo Pizarro revolts in order to stop the violence that results from the regime of the viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela and, even, to defend the encomenderos. The playwright pretended, through his play, to instruct the young Philip IV and reveal the mistakes that might occur when an indolent king delegates his authority to an unscrupulous tyrant. The very act of composing the work, which the Junta de Reformación had prohibited in 1625, was itself an act of rebellion. The restoration of the image of Gonzalo Pizarro converted itself, as such, into a mere excuse for criticizing the contemporary political circumstances. In this tragedy set in the New World, whose devastation Tirso witnessed during his two-year stay in the island of La Española, the playwright attacks are manifold. He was most critical of the violence that, in Tirso's opinion, had resulted from the socio-political repressions of the count-duke of Olivares. Tirso would not stop looking back at the failed project of colonization, implicitly considered as catastrophic. Ultimately, the playwright indicted the failure of the regime of encomiendas and the boundless ambition of the encomenderos. It becomes clear that assigning a subaltern role to the transatlantic subject inside of the articulation of social relationships in the metropolis and the colonies invites to consider the existence of transatlantic relations of power. The atlantic space, in Early Modern Spain, is not limited to commercial voyages and cultural exchanges: it is also! a space of resistance, as concretized by the indiano character in the literature of the time.!

Download or read book Transcultural Spaces and Identities in Iberian Studies written by Mark Gant and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together innovative research across the diverse field of Iberian Studies, including insights from economics, society, politics, literature, cinema and other art forms, either in a revisionist perspective or incorporating new data. Reflecting recent developments in the field, the subject matter extends beyond the boundaries of Spain and Portugal, as it also includes transnational and transatlantic interconnections with Europe, Africa and the Americas and its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit. The 18 chapters here are authored by established academics and early career researchers from the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and the USA. The book will appeal to students, researchers and all who have a particular interest in deepening their understanding of the countries of the Iberian Peninsula.

Download or read book Identities of the Iberian Peninsula written by Robert Douglas Lemon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religion Space and the Atlantic World written by John Corrigan and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary exploration of the influence of physical space in the study of religion While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decades, the full implications of that spatial setting for the lives of religious people have received far less attention. In Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World, John Corrigan brings together research from geographers, anthropologists, literature scholars, historians, and religious studies specialists to explore some of the possibilities for and benefits of taking physical space more seriously in the study of religion. Focusing on four domains that most readily reflect the importance of Atlantic world spaces for the shape and practice of religion (texts, design, distance, and civics), these essays explore subjects as varied as the siting of churches on the Peruvian Camino Real, the evolution of Hispanic cathedrals, Methodist identity in nineteenth-century Canada, and Lutherans in early eighteenth-century America. Such essays illustrate both how the organization of space was driven by religious interests and how religion adapted to spatial ordering and reordering initiated by other cultural authorities. The case studies include the erasure of Native American sacred spaces by missionaries serving as cartographers, which contributed to a view of North America as a vast expanse of unmarked territory ripe for settlement. Spanish explorers and missionaries reorganized indigenous-built space to impress materially on people the "surveillance power" of Crown and Church. The new environment and culture often transformed old institutions, as in the reconception of the European cloister into a distinctly American space that offered autonomy and solidarity for religious women and served as a point of reference for social stability as convents assumed larger public roles in the outside community. Ultimately even the ocean was reconceptualized as space itself rather than as a connector defined by the land masses that it touched, requiring certain kinds of religious orientations—to both space and time—that differed markedly from those on land. Collectively the contributors examine the locations and movement of people, ideas, texts, institutions, rituals, power, and status in and through space. They argue that just as the mental organization of our activity in the world and our recall of events have much to do with our experience of space, we should take seriously the degree to which that experience more broadly influences how we make sense of our lives.

Download or read book A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula written by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested. Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda. A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.

Download or read book Transatlantic Transcultural and Transnational Dialogues on Identity Culture and Migration written by Lori Celaya and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects in the U.S., the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, migratory experiences, cultural exchanges, identity construction, and the artificial boundaries of nation states.

Download or read book The Spanish Connection written by Eberhard Crailsheim and published by Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrept̥ between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, especially with textiles and metalware from Flanders and France. This book investigates the networks of Flemish and French merchants in Seville, displaying overall structures of trade as well as collective strategies of both merchant colonies.

Download or read book Gendered Crossings written by Allyson M. Poska and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 1 1500 1820 written by Eliga Gould and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

Download or read book Granada written by Radwa Ashour and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar the bookbinder—his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two apprentices—as they witness Christopher Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade featuring exotic plants, animals, human captives from the New World. Embedded in the narrative is the preparation for the marriage of Saad, one of the apprentices, and Saleema, Abu Jaafar's granddaughter—which is elegantly revealed in a number of parallel scenes. As the new rulers of Granada confiscate books and officials burn the collected volumes, Abu Jaafur quietly moves his rich library out of town. Persecuted Muslims fight to form an independent government, but increasing economic and cultural pressures on the Arabs of Spain and Christian rulers culminate in forcing Christian conversions and Muslim uprisings. A tale that is both vigorous and heartbreaking, this novel will appeal to general readers of Spanish and Arabic literature as well as anyone interested in Christian-Muslim relations.

Download or read book Spain a Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History 1350 1750 written by Hamish M. Scott and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of "early modernity" itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to "Cultures and Power", opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.

Download or read book Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero America written by Diana Roig-Sanz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history, sociology, and literary studies, the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production, but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations, global and cultural history, sociology, postcolonial Studies, world and comparative literature, and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429299407, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.