Cervantes in Algiers : a captive's tale / María Antonia Garcés

Author:: Garcés, María Antonia
Published:: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Edition:: 1st pbk. ed.
Physical Description:: xvi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents:

Cervantes : trauma and captivity -- The Barbary corsairs -- Writing Algiers : masters, slaves, and renegades -- Staging captivity : El trato de Argel -- An erotics of creation : la historia del cautivo -- "Anudando este roto hilo" (tying up this broken thread).

Subject(s):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616—Captivity, 1575-1580
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616—Knowledge—Algeria
Islam—Relations—Christianity
Algeria—History—1516-1830

ISBN:

0826514707 (paperback ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-325) and index.

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