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" The sacred and the profane in five Aljamiado narratives "
Bahiya Maouelainin
Francomano, Emily C.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804134
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TL48951
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1827604225; 10160756
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| Main Entry
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Erez, Oded
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The sacred and the profane in five Aljamiado narratives\ Bahiya MaouelaininFrancomano, Emily C.
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Georgetown University
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Spanish & Portuguese
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2016
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240
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Committee members: Alvarez, Lourdes; Mujica, Barbara
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-15661-4
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| Abstract
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This dissertation points at where the scholarship on Aljamiado-Morisco literature falls short and remedy what I believe is a problem. Viewing the entire corpus of literary production of a Muslim diaspora that lived under Christian rule after being forcibly converted, as being entirely religious with few profane exceptions is anachronistic. It corresponds to an imposition of modern standards on medieval texts. When approaching Mudéjar and Morisco texts, this study shows that an <i>either</i> sacred <i> or</i> profane approach is not appropriate, for it prevents the reader from accessing a myriad of other possible readings there is to a given story. I believe every text is unique and reflects the sociocultural and linguistic realities of a given group of Moriscos, realities that are not shared by all. The only way to enter the mind of this authors and copyists is through their manuscripts and the literary treasures they hold. Since these Mudéjares and Moriscos were the first sizeable Muslim community living under Christian rule, their literary creation had to go through a process of cultural negotiation that adapted previous stories to their cultural reality. Critics have been approaching their texts with the previous knowledge of the Morisco future expulsion. However, in order to fully explore the intentionality of a text and conjecture about the possible hopes and angsts experienced by the authors of the story and their audiences, we have to let go of our own socio-historical and geopolitical contexts as it blinders our critical eye.
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Medieval literature; European history; Islamic Studies; Diaspora; Personality; Intentionality; Narratives; Sociocultural factors; Negotiation; Historical text analysis; Reading; Literature; Manuscripts
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Al-andalus;Aljamiado;Iberia;Islam;Moriscos;Mudejares;Spain;The west
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Francomano, Emily C.
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Spanish PortugueseGeorgetown University
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