The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque

by Harald Braun, Jesús Pérez-Magallón

Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, Muslims, Dutch and German Protestants), and with issues related to the ethnic diversity of the world’s first transatlantic empire and its various miscegenations. Contributors to this volume offer the reader diverse vantage points on the challenging problem of how identities in the Hispanic world may be analyzed and interpreted. A number of contributors relate earlier processes and formations to Neo-Baroque and postmodern conceptualisations of identity. Given the strong interest in identity and identity-formation within contemporary cultural studies, the book will be of interest to a broad group of readers from the fields of law, geography, history, anthropology and literature.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2014

About the author

Harald Braun lebt als Autor von Sachbüchern und Romanen auf dem schleswig-holsteinschen Land. Bis 2008 arbeitete er hauptsächlich für Hochglanz-Magazine, u.a. als Stellvertretender Chefredakteur von Allegra und Freier Textchef von Park Avenue. Seinen Versuch, als überzeugter Städter ein glückliches Landei zu werden, verarbeitete er in Das Gummistiefel-Gefühl, das sehr erfolgreich im Lübbe-Sachbuchprorgramm lief.