{"product_id":"passing-for-spain-9780252027819","title":"Passing for Spain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCervantes challenges the state's attempt to categorize its subjects by presenting characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS \"Highly recommended.\"--CHOICE ADVANCE PRAISE \"Passing for Spain is a healthy sign that Renaissance scholars are finally looking to early modern Spain as a likely locus for the study of self -fashioning and the formation of the nation-state. Fuchs takes the literary breadth of the foundational Spanish writer Cervantes to examine the concept she calls passing --the deliberate impersonation of a seemingly fixed identity -- to prove just how disarmingly unfixed the markers of identity were in early modern Europe.\" -- Anne Cruz, professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassing and the fictions of Spanish identity; border crossings - transvestism and \"passing\" in \"Don Quijote\"; empire unmanned - gender trouble and genoese gold in \"Las dos doncellas\"; passing pleasures - costume and custom in \"el amante liberal\" and La gran sultana; La disimulaci on es provechosa - the critique of transparency in the Persiles and \"La espaanola inglesa\".","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400419221847,"sku":"9780252027819","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252027819.jpg?v=1730470637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/passing-for-spain-9780252027819","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}