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

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ISBN-10: 0521543509

ISBN-13: 9780521543507

Edition: 2003

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

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This text explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts. It considers representations of the New World and Islam.
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
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