Carmen Nocentelli, associate professor of English and comparative
literature at the University of New Mexico, is a speaker in the
Comparative Literature Colloquium series.Spanish Black legend is often
thought of as a unique phenomenon in the history of early modern
culture. Yet the commonplaces of this legend—intolerable tyranny,
unspeakable cruelty and a dubious ethnicity—were also deployed
against Turks, Dutch and French. There was not just one Black Legend,
but several, integral parts of an ethnoethics that developed steadily
from the 15th century onward. As they circulated across national,
linguistic and confessional boundaries, Black Legend commonplaces
marked the shifting boundaries of Europe, investing this space with an
imagined identity bound up in freedom, justice and purity of lineage.
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