Dystopias of Infamy : : Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain / / Javier Irigoyen-García.
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 b&w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: “Names Full of Vituperations”
- 1. Communities of Affronters
- 2. Self-Deprecation and Fame
- 3. Dystopias of Infamy
- 4. Fancy Sambenitos: The Ethnicization of Infamy
- 5. “They Did Not Bray in Vain”: History, Insult, and Collective Identity
- Epilogue: Spanish History as Sambenito
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author