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- Title
The Other-for-Me: The Construction of Saladin in El conde Lucanor.
- Authors
Olavide, Mario Cossío
- Abstract
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 Ayyūbīd sultan, already present in the European imagination before CL, transformed by Juan Manuel into model of behavior and a sign of Juan Manuel's colonial projection on the knowledge of Arabo-Islamic cultures.
- Subjects
WISDOM literature (Bible); CRUSADES (Middle Ages); CULTURAL identity
- Publication
eHumanista, 2019, Vol 41, p246
- ISSN
1540-5877
- Publication type
Article