Exotic Nation : : Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain / / Barbara Fuchs.

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• VerfasserIn: Fuchs, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2009
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2011
• भाषा: English
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 11 illus.

In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the firs...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Quotidian and the Exotic
• 2. In Memory of Moors: History, Maurophilia, and the Built Vernacular
• 3. The Moorish Fashion
• 4. Playing the Moor
• 5. The Spanish Race
• Postscript: Moorish Commonplaces
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments