عنوان

The times of al-Andalus: Performing alternative temporalities in Spanish new historical novels, festive reenactment, and conversion narrative

Number

TL49159

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The times of al-Andalus: Performing alternative temporalities in Spanish new historical novels, festive reenactment, and conversion narrative

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Julia C. Baumgardt

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Stephens, Walter

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Johns Hopkins University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

241

Text of Note

Committee members: Altschul, Nadia R.; Gonzalez, Eduardo; Rowe, Erin; Sieber, Harry

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-47463-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

German and Romance Languages and Literatures

Body granting the degree

The Johns Hopkins University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

With the current rise in popularity of the historical novel and "medieval" fantasy renderings in television and film, as well as the increasingly charged political rhetoric centered on notions of medieval conflict and territorial rights, the Middle Ages have become a repository for a diversity of contemporary cultural significance. Many of these meanings are resonant with Spanish National-Catholic ideology and historiographic praxis and invested with a temporal logic that makes the medieval both essence and antithesis of the modern West. This dissertation examines contemporary renovations of al-Andalus-in two historical novels, one fiesta de moros y cristianos "reenactment," and one hybrid conversion narrative-historical novel by a Spanish convert to Islam-that contrast with or attempt to contrast with these ideological uses of the Middle Ages. Following the temporal critiques of Johannes Fabian, Wai Chee Dimock and Dipesh Chakrabarty, it investigates the texts' reconstructions of the Iberian Middle Ages through an interrogation of both the temporalities the works renounce and those they create. Furthermore, it analyzes the function of these texts' attempts to vindicate the role of two groups both marginalized and appropriated by National-Catholic discourses-women and Muslims-and the intersection of this vindication with the texts' resultant temporality. Through an emphasis on discourse and communal ritual, several of the texts manage to move away from a conflict-based, teleological concept of Spanish history in time and establish an alternative temporality and a more inclusive version of al-Andalus, past and present.

Modern literature; European history; Theater; Cultural differences; Middle Ages; Discourse functions; Time; Narratives; Novels; Politics; Rhetoric; Spanish; Television; Ideology; Language history; Logic

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Al-andalus;Fiesta de moros y cristianos;Historical novels;Iberian muslims;Nationalism;Spain

Zank, Tracy Jo

Stephens, Walter

Subdivision

German and Romance Languages and Literatures

The Johns Hopkins University

Call Number

1859077627; 10302153

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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