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Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature

Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature

Hardcover

Series: Transcript, Book 26

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1839540737
ISBN13: 9781839540738
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Aug 7 2023
Pages: 186
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
A porous boundary zone between Europe and Africa, a space at once liminal and peripheral, both a gateway and a border defined through cultural and religious alterity - medieval Iberia challenges post-medieval notions of East, West, nationhood and Europe. Examining the ideological implications of real and fictional travels to the Peninsula in German-language texts ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Doriane Zerka considers the construction of individual and collective identities, religious, cultural and political. Combining the work of Michel Foucault, postcolonialism and network theory, she sheds light on the ideological processes contributing to the construction of any cultural entity modern audiences might call 'Spanish', 'German' or 'European'.

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