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Muslims --- National characteristics, Spanish. --- History --- Spain --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- Ethnic relations. --- National characteristics, Spanish --- Spanish national characteristics

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In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 and the subsequent repression of Islam in Spain, Moorish civilization continued to influence both the reality and the perception of the Christian nation that emerged in place of al-Andalus.In Exotic Nation, Barbara Fuchs explores the paradoxes in the cultural construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices. Between 1492 and the expulsion of the Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity) in 1609, Spain attempted to come to terms with its own Moorishness by simultaneously repressing Muslim subjects and appropriating their rich cultural heritage. Fuchs examines the explicit romanticization of the Moors in Spanish literature-often referred to as "literary maurophilia"-and the complex, often silent presence of Moorish forms in Spanish material culture. The extensive hybridization of Iberian culture suggests that the sympathetic depiction of Moors in the literature of the period does not trade in exoticism but instead reminded Spaniards of the place of Moors and their descendants within Spain. Meanwhile, observers from outside Spain recognized its cultural debt to al-Andalus, often deliberately casting Spain as the exotic racial other of Europe.

Muslims --- National characteristics, Spanish. --- History. --- Spain --- History --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- Ethnic relations. --- Spanish national characteristics --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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National characteristics, Spanish --- Spain --- Historiography --- 860.04 --- 946 --- Spanish national characteristics --- Spaanse literatuur--?.04 --- Geschiedenis van Spanje --- Historiography. --- 946 Geschiedenis van Spanje --- 860.04 Spaanse literatuur--?.04 --- 946 History of Spain --- History of Spain --- Spain - Historiography

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Nationalism --- Popular culture --- Nationalisme --- Culture populaire --- Spain --- Espagne --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- Vie intellectuelle --- Civilisation --- National characteristics, Spanish. --- #KVHA:Cultuur; Spanje --- National characteristics, Spanish --- Spanish national characteristics --- History --- Sociology of culture

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This innovative study examines the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. These mechanisms served to delineate a national tradition that addressed the needs of a changing society and gave a 'Spanish' physiognomy to the Italian experience, which ultimately led to the Golden Age. By examining such important texts as the sentimental fictions of Diego de San Pedro and Juan de Flores, the Spanish translation of 'Orlando Furioso', 'Don Quixote', and the 'Polifemo', Binotti first describes the conditions imposed on book production by both the expectations of an elite audience and the limitations of the printing market while outlining the process of the creation of an expressive poetic language and the quest for literary models. She then looks at Ambrosio de Morales' chronicles and Bernardo de Aldrete's 'Del Origen', showing how a cultural discourse founded on foreign scholarship paved the way for the establishment of innovative-and autochtonous-methods of historical and scientific analysis in the early seventeenth-century. LUCIA BINOTTI is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

National characteristics, Spanish. --- Nationalism and literature --- Spanish literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Spanish national characteristics --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Spain --- Civilization --- Cultural mechanisms. --- Golden Age. --- Imperial Spain. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Literary language. --- Literary models. --- Literary traditions. --- Spanish translation.