Alcuzcuz and Muslims “de nación”
Naturalizing Religious Difference in Debates about Enslavement in Early Modern Granada and Manila
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16606558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Feild-Marchello (0009-0008-1595-1809, Phillips Exeter Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 31-55 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/731064 |
| OpenAlex | W4402830702 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 11 |
It is no accident that the literary and historical paper trail of early modern Spain and the Spanish empire is littered with racialized names and terminologies that activate associations with Islam. This article analyzes the roles of naming choices across different genres of writing via integrated case studies of the 1567 Pragmatic, a local rebuttal to that pragmatic, and royal orders and laws regarding enslavement practices in Granada and the Philippines, as well as the play Amar después de la muerte by Calderón de la Barca to shed light on the traffic of rhetorical strategies between literary and historical documents, as well as between Spain and the Philippines. It argues that early modern writers (from playwrights to court and colonial officials to King Felipe II) frequently drew on racialized vocabularies that mobilized naturalized understanding of religious inheritance as they entered into debates regarding the enslavement of Muslims (in the Philippines) and converts from Islam and their descendants (in Spain)
Political science · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |