The afterlife of al-Andalus : Muslim Iberia in contemporary Arab and Hispanic narratives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Civantos, Christina, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Series:	SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
Subjects:	Spanish literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Arabic literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Spanish literature > Arab influences. Comparative literature > Spanish and Arabic. Comparative literature > Arabic and Spanish. Andalusia (Spain) > In literature. Spain > Civilization > Islamic influences.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: shared legacies and connected histories
Cultural (un)translatability and narratives of identity in representations of ibn Rushd/Averroes. Borges and his Arab interlocutors: Orientalism, translation, and epistemology
Ibn Rushd and freedom of expression: the construction and fragmentation of identity narratives
To and from al-Andalus: migration and coloniality. The migration of a hero: the construction and deconstruction Tariq ibn Ziyad
Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad XII (Boabdil) and other migrants
Coda: Columbus and coloniality
Florinda, Wallada, and "Scheherazade" or the women of al-Andalus and the stories they tell
Florinda and Wallada: subjugation, seduction, and textual transformation
Scheherazade: al-Andalus as seduction and as story
Conclusion: re-weaving narratives of al-Andalus, identity, and tolerance.