Description: Death in Babylon : Alexander the Great & Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient, Hardcover by Barletta, Vincent, ISBN 0226037363, ISBN-13 9780226037363, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and Spanish influence in the centuries to come.
Death in Babylon depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy, and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining literary and historical works in Aljamiado, Castilian, Catalan, Greek, Latin, and Portuguese, Death in Babylon develops a view of empire and modernity informed by the ethical metaphysics of French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A novel contribution to the literature of empire building, Death in Babylon provides a frame for the deep mortal anxiety that has infused and given shape to the spread of imperial Europe from its very beginning.
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Book Title: Death in Babylon : Alexander the Great & Iberian Empire in the Mu
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Death in Babylon : Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Medieval, European / Spanish & Portuguese, Europe / Spain & Portugal
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Vincent Barletta
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
