Langbeschreibung
Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious, political, and literary texts, including the works of Cervantes, Dystopias of Infamy reconsiders how insults and infamy were imagined as potential sites of resistance to subjectification in early modern Spain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: "Names full of vituperations"1. Insulting as a Social Speech Act: Communities of Affronters2. Self-deprecation and Social Existence3. Dystopias of Infamy4. Fancy sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy5. "They did not bray in vain": History, Insult, and Collective IdentityEpilogue: Spanish History as sambenitoAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex