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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martínez Góngora, Mar

Titel

El Magreb, pluralidad y memoria: Cervantes y las crónicas de Berbería en "La historia del cautivo"

Ist Teil von

• Cervantes (Gainesville, Fla.), 2017-09, Vol.37 (2), p.35-223

Ort / Verlag

Newark: Cervantes Society of America

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In "La historia del cautivo," Miguel de Cervantes offers data on North Africa, the reality of the Ottoman Empire and the Muslim "other" Muslim that reveal the complexity of the Islamic world and the importance of knowledge acquired across the Strait of Gibraltar for recovery of the memory of the Andalusians and their descendants. In this segment of his work, Cervantes disseminates information about Algerian society, as well as about the struggle against the Ottoman Empire that the author obtains firsthand as a soldier in Lepanto and later during his captivity from 1575 to 1580 in Algiers. The representation of an "other" of Muslim origin has a deep and direct understanding of the North African reality that the author shares with other contemporary writers who traveled to the Maghreb. The fact that the story of Pérez de Viedma about his days of captivity, meeting the beautiful Zoraida, fleeing from Algiers and returning to Spain presents one of the most nuanced and diversified images of the Muslim enemy of Spanish literature must be attended to in relation with other contemporary discourses on Barbary.