Dr. Davis has recently published the following article in the peer-reviewed journal eHumanista, Vol. 40 (2018): 331-353.
“Heading For Constantinople: Typecast Muslims in the Spanish Mediterranean (1492-1615)”
This essay tracks the course of persistent representational strategies used by early modern Spanish writers to depict a Muslim “other” whom they had come to view as an antagonist. Some of the most repetitive typecasting for the Islamic foe evolves but also carries over from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. The text set includes El Abencerraje, Juan Rufo’s epic La Austriada, and several of Cervantes’ captivity texts.