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Dangler, Jean

 
9780268025762: Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

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Medieval Iberia was a multicultural territory of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian societies in constant geographic, cultural, political, and economic contact. In this engaging study, Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical literature about the body, and portrayals of the monster. She argues that the texts demonstrate the two fundamental precepts of medieval Iberian alterity: multifaceted subject formation and the embrace of contrasts and the negative. Dangler explores how the four discourses she analyzes changed in the early modern period from an acceptance of difference to more rigid concepts of subjectivity and the marginalization of difference-a shift accompanying the rise of the Castilian nation-state and its imposition of static hierarchies of value.

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Jean Dangler is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University.

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9780268025755: Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

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ISBN 10:  0268025754 ISBN 13:  9780268025755
Editorial: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005
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