Rereading the Black Legend : the discourses of religious and racial difference in the Renaissance empires / edited by Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greer, Margaret Rich.

Mignolo, Walter

Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Legend (Spanish history).

Imperialism.

History.

Spain--Civilization--1516-1700.

Spain.

Civilization.

National characteristics, Spanish.

Imperialism--History--16th century.

Spain--Foreign public opinion.

Physical Description:

vii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Summary:

The phrase "The Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, Rereading the Black Legend contextualizes Spain's uniquely negative reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the Black Legend.

Contents:

Part I Two Empires of the East

2 An Imperial Caste: Inverted Racialization in the Architecture of Ottoman Sovereignty / Leslie Peirce 27

3 Hierarchies of Age and Gender in the Mughal Construction of Domesticity and Empire / Ruby Lal 48

Part II Spain: Conquista and Reconquista

4 Race and the Middle Ages: The Case of Spain and Its Jews / David Nirenberg 71

5 The Spanish Race / Barbara Fuchs 88

6 The Black Legend and Global Conspiracies: Spain, the Inquisition, and the Emerging Modern World / Irene Silverblatt 99

7 Of Books, Popes, and Huacas; or, The Dilemmas of Being Christian / Gonzalo Lamana 117

8 The View of the Empire from the Altepetl: Nahua Historical and Global Imagination / Silver Moon, Michael Ennis 150

9 "Race" and "Class" in the Spanish Colonies of America: A Dynamic Social Perception / Yolanda Fabiola Orquera 167

10 Unfixing Race / Kathryn Burns 188

Part III Dutch Designs

11 Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da India / Carmen Nocentelli 205

12 Rereading Theodore de Bry's Black Legend / Patricia Gravatt 225

Part IV Belated England

13 West of Eden: American Gold, Spanish Greed, and the Discourses of English Imperialism / Edmund Valentine Campos 247

14 Blackening "the Turk" in Roger Ascham's A Report of Germany (1553) / Linda Bradley Salamon 270

15 Nations into Persons / Jeffrey Knapp 293

Afterword: What Does the Black Legend Have to Do with Race? / Walter D. Mignolo 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-446) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780226307213

0226307212

9780226307220

0226307220

OCLC:

154689770

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