 | The Abencerraje and @quot;Ozmín and Daraja@quot; Faithfully translated into modern, accessible English, "The Abencerraje" and "Ozmín and Daraja" offer rich imaginings of life on the Christian-Muslim frontier and reveal early modern Spain's profound fascination with the Moorish culture that was officially denounced and persecuted. Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. She is author of The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain as well as cotranslator of Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, which are all available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Larissa Brewer-Garcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Aaron J. Ilika is an independent scholar and translator based in Portland, Oregon. |
