Slavery in the spanish literature of the Golden Age
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PhD Thesis: Slavery in the Spanish literature of the Golden
Author: Tristan Peña, Maria Luisa (2012) PhD Thesis.
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If slavery can be defined as a state during which a man loses his innate and inalienable right of free will and is under the control of another no doubt that in the Spain of the Golden Age were made quite a few different forms of slavery each other and linked to some rights as justified and human figures that were with the approval of society. Galley slaves, captives, blacks and Moors (and variants of Moors and mulattos) are the new characters taken from the literature surrounding reality and inspired by three social classes of slavery, areas of origin and destination. Thus the galley is referring to forced or slave of the king whose bondage is imposed by "criminal law" as payment for the crime. Its origins are in the underworld and their fates are prisons, gallows and galleys. The captive, meanwhile, is the prisoner and their slavery is established by "law of war" as loot is given to the winner. It comes from the world of soldiers and their destinations are the bathrooms, galleries and individuals. The black is the quintessential slave and slavery was justified by "natural law", its origins are in the world of trafficking and the great slave markets, their fates are diverse and vary according to the master and the purposes for which was acquired. Accordingly this paper is divided into four chapters. In the first two spaces as spaces become prominent slave: the Mediterranean infested with pirates, slavery and route hub where Moors and Christians in accordance with broadswords pure accounts, and the interior of the Peninsula with its many black slaves, mulattoes, Moors, Moriscos. The second leads to the underworld and from there to Seville jail to finish in the king's galleys. The third shows us all that soldiers starved and thirsty for glory and booty, and their terrible captivity in Algiers, Tunis and Constantinople. Here we find the deserter, the adventurous or renegade. The fourth focuses on the life that blacks and mulattos, slaves and freedmen, carrying on the Peninsula. And all this occurred through the eyes of the literature of the time, a revelation of slavery that occurred in the days of the Hapsburgs, in all its variety of forms, types, descriptions and justifications.
Item Type: Thesis (PhD)Additional Information: Unpublished Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Philology, read on 28/02/2012
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Díez Fernández, José Ignacio
Uncontrolled Keywords: Slavery and literature, Captive, Slavery, Galeote
Subjects: Humanities> Philology> Spanish and Spanish American literature
ID Code: 15280
Deposited On: 18 May 2012 13:11
Last Modified: 18 May 2012 13:11
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