Troy and the Arauco in the Alpujarras: global visions and local destinies in Guerra de los moriscos (Part 2 of Guerras Civiles de Granada)
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[1] Rhodes College
Rhodes College
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ISSN 1463-6204, ISSN-e 1469-9818, Vol. 13, Nº. 4, 2012, págs. 408-421
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This essay examines the transformation of the landscape into a maritime space in Ginés Pérez de Hita's narration of the episode of Galera in his Guerra de los moriscos. By identifying the Alpujarras with Augustan landscapes, the author places the text in a dialectical relationship with the most famous epic account of the indigenous rebellion in Chile: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. The suggestive panoramas that emerge from this refiguration of the topography yield unexpected connections between contested places within the Spanish world (Alpujarras–Mediterranean–Chile–North Africa). Moreover, this network of places situates the rebellion vis-à-vis a decisive battle in the struggle for the Mediterranean: Lepanto. Through his highly original geography, Pérez de Hita advances novel notions of global expansion that call into question the political and moral consequences of the imperial enterprise and reveal the fragmentary nature of ostensibly powerful, monolithic global structures.
