عنوان

The sacred and the profane in five Aljamiado narratives

Number

TL48951

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The sacred and the profane in five Aljamiado narratives

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Bahiya Maouelainin

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Francomano, Emily C.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

240

Text of Note

Committee members: Alvarez, Lourdes; Mujica, Barbara

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-15661-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Spanish & Portuguese

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

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 either sacred or 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.

Medieval literature; European history; Islamic Studies; Diaspora; Personality; Intentionality; Narratives; Sociocultural factors; Negotiation; Historical text analysis; Reading; Literature; Manuscripts

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Al-andalus;Aljamiado;Iberia;Islam;Moriscos;Mudejares;Spain;The west

Erez, Oded

Francomano, Emily C.

Subdivision

Spanish & Portuguese

Georgetown University

Call Number

1827604225; 10160756

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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