Political Marketing and British Political Parties: The Party's Just Begun - Couverture souple

Lees-Marshment, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719060176 ISBN 13 : 9780719060175

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for ‘pure’ Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society – and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness.

This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Lees-Marshment is Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719060176
• ISBN 13: 9780719060175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible