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

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 s...

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Autor: Cossío Olavide, Mario Antonio|||0000-0002-1447-3891
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/46608
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/46608
https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/rwks-0v28
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conde Lucanor
Juan Manuel
Saladin
Reconquista
Crusades
Filología
Philology
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Sumario: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.