Spanish Arcadia

Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-GarcÍa argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity.The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-GarcÍa provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-12-20
Mått160 x 237 x 28 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor360
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442647275
UtmärkelserCommended for Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize awarded by Modern Language Association 2014 (United States)

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A country of Shepherds Race, Religion, and Culture in Early Modern SpainThe Figure of the Shepherd in Early Modern SpainPastoral Literature and Cultural SupersessionPart One. Sheep Herding and Ethnocentrism in Early Modern Spain 1 Sheep Herding and Discourses on Race Writing the History of Spanish SheepSheep Herding and Racial TerminologyThe Good Shepherd and limpieza de sangreRepresenting Laban’s Livestock 2 Rustic Culture and the Invention of the Spanish People The Adoration of the shepherdsApparitions to ShepherdsPerforming Rustic CultureDressing the ShepherdRustic Speech as Relic 3 In the Land of Pan: Pastoral Classicism and Historiography Ancient Place Names and Pastoral CartographiesInhabiting the Past with ShepherdsEtymology and Sheep HerdingPaganism and Ethnic IdentityThe God Pan and the Name of Spain Part Two. Contesting Ethnocentrism within the Arcadia 4 The Moor in Arcadia The Story of El Abencerraje in Montemayor’s La DianaReluctant Shepherds: Gaspar Mercader’s El prado de ValenciaThe Limits of Cultural Cleansing in Cervantes’ pastoral 5 Imagining the Spanish Arcadia after 1609 Jews and Gypsies in Lope de Vega’s Pastores de BelÉnNostalgia for the Moor: Jacinto Espinel Adorno’s El premio de la constanciaPastoral Hierarchies: Juan de Barrionuevo y Moya’s Primera parte de la soledad entretenida Conclusion: Pan’s Labyrinth The Pastoral Habitus: Early Modern to PresentFrom Blood Purity to WhitenessPastoral and Ethnocentrism: Future Directions Notes Works Cited

‘What makes this a great academic achievement is that it plays a big part in finding a meaningful global interpretation of the heterogeneous pastoral manifestation in early modern Spain.’- Oiol Miro Marti (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:04:2014) ‘The Spanish Arcadia is a beautifully written, insightful and well-researched study. Irigoyen-Garcia provides a wealth of information about Spanish historiography and the fashioning of national identity.’- Bárbara Mujica (Bulletin of Spanish Studies vol 94:2017)