A Grammar of the Corpse : : Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean / / Elizabeth Spragins.
No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed an...
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Spragins, Elizabeth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Grammar of the Corpse : Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Elizabeth Spragins. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (224 p.) : 4 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A GRAMMAR OF THE CORPSE -- Introduction: Necroepistemology -- 1. Presence: Here Are the Dead -- 2. Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead -- 3. Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead -- 4. Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses -- 5. Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography.A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge.A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023) Alcazarquivir, Battle of, Qaṣr al-Kabīr, Larache, Morocco, 1578. Battle casualties Miscellanea. Dead in literature. Dead. Discourse analysis. Literary Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Renaissance Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. bisacsh Iberian Union. Iberian studies. Mediterranean studies. al-Qasr al-Kabir. corpse. death and dying. epistemology. historiography. index. violence. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110751673 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501594?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781531501594 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781531501594/original |
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