El Abencerraje : una lección de virtud en los albores del confesionalismo filipino
Between 1561 and 1565 the three known versions of El Abencerrage —Cronica, Diana and Inventario — were printed. The moral lesson of these works, based on the principles of the humanism, is opposite to the process of confessionalization promoted by the Hispanic Monarchy in those dates. From the reconstruction of those three writing contexts —and knowing the courtesan faction to which the successive adapters of the work belonged: Jimenez de Embun’s servant, Jorge de Montemayor and Antonio de Villegas— this work attempts to prove, from the studies on the Spanish Court, how the first Spanish Moorish novel was, understood as an ideological discourse, a frontal attack against Philip the II’s confessionalism arised from the political opposition.
Jarifa's Choice: A Gendered Reading of El Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa
The concerns that traditionally have framed the critical dialogue regarding the representation of the Moor in Golden-Age literature have almost exclusively addressed the figure of the male Moor and his relations of power, or submission to, his Christian adversary. Critics such as Richard F. Glenn, Joaquín Casalduero, Claudio Guillén, Francisco López Estrada, George Shipley and María Soledad Carrasco Urgoiti see in the seminal text El Abencerraje y la hermosa Jarifa an elevating treatment of the Moor; his bravery and virtue both as a warrior and as a lover make him a figure comparable to Rodrigo de Narváez, the Christian Knight.1 While the purported motivations for this positive figuring of the young Moorish warrior vary (an idealization of human nature in general, an antidote to the historical realities of the morisco populations in Spain, a didactic tool for those same Moorish populations, a progressive call to the acceptance of this, and perhaps the converso, population), its rhetorical and discursive strategies are said to be based on an exaltation of virtue: ‘Es la virtud, por lo tanto, la materia de la obra; de ahí que la composición de ésta se organice con el apoyo de los elementos señalados y al servicio de cada uno de ellos’.2 Critics such as Israel Burshatin, Ricardo Krauel and Mary Gaylord argue for a more sceptical reading of a text, which, in their
The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications
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