Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile

Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile

by Louise Mirrer
ISBN-10:
0472107232
ISBN-13:
9780472107230
Pub. Date:
08/14/1996
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10:
0472107232
ISBN-13:
9780472107230
Pub. Date:
08/14/1996
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile

Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile

by Louise Mirrer

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Overview

Through a detailed analysis of medieval Spain's best known literary works, this book examines two common images of woman—the sexually attractive matron of the Christian upper classes, and the beautiful, pure, and sexually ripe upper-class Muslim or Jewish woman who is submissive to Christians. Suggesting a link between these images and the issues of political and military power, religious difference, and language in the context of reconquest Castile, the book argues that female representation in the literature provides a resolution of Christian-Muslim military conflict.
This volume is the first in the field of medieval Hispanic studies to reexamine the canon in the light of recent critical work on language, gender, power, and the effects of domination. It shows how the texts imaginarily liberate Christian women from the authority of their husbands, in order to demonstrate how women's access to the discourses of power leads to tragedy and ruin for the men who fail to silence them.
Women, Jews, and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile makes the argument that dominant-"other" struggle, waged on the terrains of gender, religion, and war, is the most appropriate paradigm for discussing literary texts produced in the last centuries of reconquest. More than any other culture, medieval Spain reminds us of the provisional nature of national, religious, and sexual identity.
Exploring the gendering of subjects in society, the volume will be of interest to those in cultural and gender studies, Hispanic studies, medieval studies, and Middle Eastern studies. All texts are translated, and maps and illustrations help orient the reader.
Louise Mirrer is Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472107230
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 08/14/1996
Series: Studies In Medieval And Early Modern Civilization
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louise Mirrer is Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota.

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