Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

by Barbara Fuchs

Book Overview

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 first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492 and the subsequent repression...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221737
• ISBN13: 9780812221732
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"