Mimesis and Empire The New World, Islam, and European Identities

Name: Mimesis and Empire The New World, Islam, and European Identities
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ISBN: 9780511153518

ISBN-10: 0511153511

ISBN-13: 9780511153518

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Authors: Barbara Fuchs, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton, Jonathan Dollimore, Marjorie Garber

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As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as 'other' in contemporary texts. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern…

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Romance and Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity.

Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and American Literature and Language and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge and Nantucket, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.



Introduction



Truth, fictions, and the New World



Literary loyalties, imperial betrayals



Lettered subjects



Virtual Spaniards



Faithless empires



Pirating Spain


Conclusion