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Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver: Jewish Writing in the Eye of the Spanish Inquisition

Colbert I. Nepaulsingh
Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver: Jewish Writing in the Eye of the Spanish Inquisition
ISBN: 978-0-8419-1358-5
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ISBN: 978-0-8419-1361-5
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1995/149 pages/LC: 94038056
Distributed for Holmes & Meier Publishers

"This highly personal approach to literary criticism provides close readings that aim to establish the Lazarillo, the Abencerraje, and Montemayor's Diana as converso texts.... These reflections should not be treated lightly. Agree with them or not, careful readers will not approach these texts in the same way again."—Choice

DESCRIPTION

During the Spanish Inquisition, daring individuals defied and thwarted persecution by writing works in which hidden meanings were apparent only to Jews or fellow conversos, the descendants of Jewish converts to Christianity. Colbert Nepaulsingh analyzes three seminal, sixteenth-century novels as converso works—Lazarillo, a prototype of the picaresque novel; El Abencerraje, of the Moorish novel; and The Seven Books of Diana, of the pastoral novel—using them as points of entry to explore the complex era in which the renowned diverse society of medieval Spain gave way to oppression and resistance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Colbert I. Nepaulsingh is professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Albany, SUNY. He is author of Towards a History of Literary Composition in Medieval Spain.

CONTENTS

  • Life as a Text We Learn to Read: Point of Entry.
  • The Texts and Their Inquisitors.
  • Apples of Gold in Filigrees of Silver.
  • Pre-reading Lazarillo.
  • Lazarillo as a Confesso Text.
  • El Abencerraje as a Converso Text.
  • The Seven Books of La Diana.
  • Lfe as a Text We Learn to Read: Exit.