 | Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain Subjects: Muslims -- Spain -- History; National characteristics Spanish; Spain -- History -- 711–1516; Spain -- Civilization -- Islamic influences; Spain -- Ethnic relations; Barbara Fuchs examines the paradoxes in the construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices from 1492 to 1609. Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Romance and Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity. |
