Mimesis and Empire:The New World, Islam, and European Identities:40 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 40)


Mimesis and Empire:The New World, Islam, and European Identities:40 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 40)

by: Barbara Fuchs (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Barbara Fuchs Page See search results for this author Barbara Fuchs (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (16 Aug. 2001)

Language: English

Print length: 228 pages

ISBN-10: 0521801028

ISBN-13: 9780521801027

Book Description

As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as ‘other’ in contemporary texts. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern imperialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.

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