{"product_id":"memories-of-colonisation-in-medieval-and-modern-castile-rereading-and-refashioning-al-andalus-9780198918097","title":"Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning Al-Andalus","description":"\u003cem\u003eMemories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus\u003c\/em\u003e traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn its earliest form, it is a story of a weak, conflictual county of Castile, dependent socioeconomically and morally upon Andalusi intervention. This book therefore traces how a story of Castilian weakness is repeatedly rewritten once the reverse colonial dynamic had taken hold and Castile had begun conquering al-Andalus. \u003cem\u003eMemories of Colonisation\u003c\/em\u003e asks why Mudarra and the infantes continue to reappear in medieval chronicles, from the \u003cem\u003eEstoria de Espa?a\u003c\/em\u003e to lesser-known regional historiography, early modern ballads, \u003cem\u003ecomedias\u003c\/em\u003e, and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and prose. By examining how each of these texts remember tenth century Iberia's fluid geographical and interracial boundaries, it explores how they support or challenge dominant contemporary discourses of collective identity, race, and nation; from the neogothic aspirations of thirteenth-century Castile to the antisemitism of fifteenth-century Toledo, expansion in the Mediterranean, the Islamophobia of the \u003cem\u003emorisco\u003c\/em\u003e expulsion, and the partisan manipulation of al-Andalus under nineteenth century liberalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the first study of the development of Spanish neomedievalism, it explores how this serves as a productive, prescient discourse of cultural memory through which chroniclers, poets, playwrights, and authors can look forward. It questions the inevitability of Christian-Castilian colonial hegemony by invoking a narrative of Christian Iberia's own subjugation by a superior Umayyad Caliphate. It also explores how each text exposes the task of reconstructing historical memory in the present and thereby challenges the notion of a stable, incontestable past for Castile and Spain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca De Souza, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Stirling\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRebecca De Souza is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling. She was previously a Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universit?t Berlin and holds a PhD in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. Rebecca's work has appeared in La cor?nica, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and postmedieval, amongst other venues. Her research investigates how memories of the premodern era are instrumentalised at particular historical moments across the Hispanophone world, from Iberia to Latin America, the Sephardic diaspora, and the Philippines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181658079506,"sku":"9780198918097","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_76346c6a-839e-471a-ad34-2bb304555e06.jpg?v=1744399605","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memories-of-colonisation-in-medieval-and-modern-castile-rereading-and-refashioning-al-andalus-9780198918097","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}