Dystopias of infamy : insult and collective identity in early modern Spain / Javier Irigoyen-Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irigoyen-García, Javier, 1975- author.

Series:

Campos Ibéricos.

Campos Ibericos: Bucknell studies in Iberian literatures and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Invective in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: "Names Full of Vituperations"

1. Communities of Affronters

2. Self-Deprecation and Fame

3. Dystopias of Infamy

4. Fancy Sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy

5. "They Did Not Bray in Vain": History, Insult, and Collective Identity

Epilogue: Spanish History as Sambenito

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Irigoyen-García, Javier Dystopias of Infamy

ISBN:

9781684484027

1684484022

9781684484041

1684484049

OCLC:

1336990032