Covert gestures : crypto-Islamic literature as cultural practice in early modern Spain / Vincent Barletta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barletta, Vincent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mozarabic literature--History and criticism.

Mozarabic literature.

Islamic literature--Spain--History and criticism.

Islamic literature.

Spanish literature--Arab influences.

Spanish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, [Bristol : University Presses Marketing, distributor], c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covert Gestures reveals how the traditional Islamic narratives of the moriscos both shaped and encoded a wide range of covert social activity characterized by a profound and persistent concern with time and temporality. Using a unique blend of literary analysis, linguistic anthropology, and phenomenological philosophy, Vincent Barletta explores the narratives as testimonials of past human experiences and discovers in them evidence of community resistance.

Contents:

Introduction: The fabric of time

Toward an activity-centered approach to Aljamiado-Morisco narrative

Written narrative and the human dimension of time

Contexts of rediscovery, contexts of use

The Prophet is born, Muslims are made

A Morisco philosophy of suffering and action

Language ideologies and poetic form

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9672-1

OCLC:

476095777