Islam in Spanish Literature - From the Middle Ages to the Present: From the Middle Ages to the Present - Hardcover

Lopez-Baralt, Luce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004094601 ISBN 13: 9789004094604

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1992

Synopsis

Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the eight centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian Peninsula. This volume takes up the thread of the work of the Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, the first to comment extensively upon the marked Islamic features in many Spanish classics. After an initial survey of the presence of Islam and Judaism in Spanish history and culture, succeeding chapters explore the Muslim context of Juan Ruiz, the author of the Libro de buen amor; St John of the Cross; St Teresa de Jesus; the anonymous sonnet "No me mueve, mi Dios"; aljamiado-morisco literature and then "official" Moorophile literature, standing in such dramatic contrast to one another; and last, the novelist Juan Goytisolo, who, writing today, continues to reflect upon the impact of the East on Spanish culture. It is no exaggeration to state that this book redefines the ground of the study of Spanish literature; it will be hard for the contemporary reader ever again to read it with innocence, as a literature exclusively "European."

About this title

About the Author:

Luce López-Baralt, Ph.D. Harvard University (1974) is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literatures, University of Puerto Rico. Her publications include: San Juan de la Cruz y el Islam (1985), Huellas del Islam en la literatura española. De Juan Ruiz a Juan Goytisolo (1985), Un 'Kāma Sūtra espanol. El primer tratado erótico de nuestra lengua (ms. S-2 BRAH Madrid), and as editor: Sadilies y alumbrados, Miguel Asín Palacios (1990), and Obra completa de San Juan de la Cruz (1991).

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish, Arabic

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 9004094601
• ISBN 13: 9789004094604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344