Theatres of absence: Seville, 1248--1575
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Title
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Theatres of absence: Seville, 1248--1575
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:bf2dfb507c80:11356
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identifier
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11762
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Creator
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Swift, Christopher,
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Contributor
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Pamela Sheingorn
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater history | Medieval history | European history | Affect Theory | Iberian Theatre | Medieval Studies | Phenomenology | Ritual and Performance | Seville
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Abstract
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Despite a notable lack of historiographic attention to medieval Iberian theatre, a golden age of performance existed on the Peninsula well before the appearance of Lope de Vega at the end of the sixteenth century. New archival discoveries and innovative research methodologies reveal medieval Seville as a vital site of performance culture. This dissertation employs interdisciplinary critical methods of postcolonialism, ritual affect, and phenomenology in order to examine performances of religious and cultural interaction between Muslims, Jews, and Christians along the Andalusi frontier in late medieval, early modern Spain. The coextensive relationships between textual, spatial, and corporal forms are considered in the analyses of Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria, which, as staged in a converted mosque, disclose traces of pre-conquest Andalusi poetic and musical forms; the late medieval penitential movement in Spain that facilitated metonymic associations between Christians and religious minorities through symbolic links across an array of processional enactments; and, in the context of religious and economic imperialism, restaging of Amerindian ritual that contributed to the invention of New World subjectivity. From Christian reconquest through the culturally heterogeneous periods of Atlantic exploration and colonialism, performance was a method of compensating for social imbalances, erecting and crossing religious divisions, and facilitating cultural admixtures, and these interactions gave meaning to public devotional practices and communal identities.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Theatre
