The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Constructing National Identities

Catherine Jaffe, Karen Stolley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2024
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-80207-513-7 (ISBN)

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What are the stories that we tell about ourselves and others, and how do those stories contribute to the construction of a collective memory and national identity? The Black Legend—the representation of Spaniards and the Spanish Empire as cruel and intolerant—first emerged in response to accounts of Spanish abuses during the sixteenth-century conquest period. It lived on in the eighteenth century in the context of evolving imperial, religious, and commercial rivalries in Europe and beyond, even as Spanish imperial power was waning, and cultural and political hegemony was shifting from Spain to France and England.

This is the first book in English to focus on the Black Legend in the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment period. Scholars from the United States, Spain, and Latin America offer transnational and transdisciplinary approaches to understanding how the Black Legend was deployed during the construction of national identities in the eighteenth century. The essays’ interconnecting themes—violence; intolerance; difference; the role of the Inquisition; the legacy of Bartolomé de las Casas and Columbus; transnational relations; translation and gender—informed the emergence of modern political systems and national identities, and still resonate in references to the Black Legend today.

Catherine M. Jaffe is professor of Spanish Literature at Texas State University. She co-authored María Lorenza de los Ríos, marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: vida y obra de una escritora del Siglo de las Luces and is co-editor of several books on women and the Hispanic Enlightenment. Karen Stolley is professor of Spanish American literary and cultural studies at Emory University. She is the author of Domesticating Empire: Enlightenment in Spanish America and co-editor of a special issue of Colonial Latin American Review on “Latin American Enlightenments.” Recent publications include chapters on eighteenth-century Spanish American studies.

CATHERINE M. JAFFE and KAREN STOLLEY, Introduction

I. Debating and negotiating the Black Legend in the Hispanic World

ANTONIO CALVO MATURANA, Nobody expects the Spanish Enlightenment: victimhood and sense of European belonging in late eighteenth-century Spain

NURIA SORIANO MUÑOZ, Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Black Legend as a political problem in the Spanish Enlightenment: patriotism and victimhood

KAREN STOLLEY, Rewriting the Black Legend in eighteenth-century New Spain: Francisco Javier Clavijero’s Historia de la California

ANA MARÍA DÍAZ BURGOS, Inquisitorial mission or colonial protocol: rethinking the Spanish Black Legend in the long-eighteenth-century Cartagena de Indias

II. Translating the Black Legend

CAROLE MARTIN, Instrumentalizing the Black Legend, or: how Don Quixote’s dis/enchantment set the French Enlightenment in motion

MARIA SOLEDAD BARBÓN, Competing fictions in Italian exile: Spanish Jesuit literati and the Black Legend

CLORINDA DONATO, Writing and translating the Black Legend: French and Italian literary constructions of the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century

CATHERINE M. JAFFE, “We are now members of the same flock”: gender, nation, and conversion in María Rosario Romero’s 1792 translation of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne

III. Deploying the Black Legend beyond the Hispanic World

MICHAEL VINCENT, “He knew no music other than his own”: Spain and isolation in biographies of Luigi Boccherini

DAVID FREEMAN, The Black Legend in travel accounts: perceptions of Spain in eighteenth-century Dutch travel writing

JONATHAN CRIMMINS, The Black Legend: liberalism, natural right, and British abolitionism

REVA WOLF, The victim as martyr: the Black Legend and eighteenth-century representations of Inquisition punishments

CATHERINE M. JAFFE AND KAREN STOLLEY, Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2024:04
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-80207-513-5 / 1802075135
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-513-7 / 9781802075137
Zustand	Neuware