The Other-for-Me. The Construction of Saladin in El conde Lucanor

Authors
Cossío Olavide, Mario AntonioUniversity of Alcalá Author
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Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/46608
DOI: 10.17613/rwks-0v28
ISSN: 1540 5877
Date
2019-10-16
Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Filología, Comunicación y Documentación. Unidad docente Filología. Área de Literatura Española
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eHumanista. Journal of Iberian Studies, 2019, v. 41, p. 246-265
Keywords
Conde Lucanor
Juan Manuel
Saladin
Crusades
Reconquista
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Abstract
This essay analyzes the representation of Saladin in examples 25 and 50 of Conde Lucanor, establishing parallels with other Mediterranean narratives &-historical accounts of the Crusades, chivalric poetry, didactic and wisdom literature&- to problematize the view that these stories are critical representations of Muslims and of Saladin. I propose that the Saladin of the examples embodies an idealized vision of the Ayy&;363#bīd sultan, already present in the European imagination before CL, transformed by Juan Manuel into a model of behavior and a sign of Juan Manuel's colonial projection on the knowledge of Arabo Islamic cultures.
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