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Description of  Dystopias of Infamy: Insult and Collective Identity in Early Modern Spain (Campos Ib ricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures)

Insults, scorn, and verbal abusefrequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulterare destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Read more