Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature explores the ways
Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers
and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order
to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries. While these
authors are of different religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds,
they use the go-between, an essential figure in the Andalusi courtly
discourse of desire, to open up a secular, more tolerant intellectual
space in the face of increasingly fundamentalist currents in their
respective cultures. The way this study focuses on the hybrid discourses
and identities of medieval Iberia as Muslim, Jewish and Christian
responses to continual contact/conflict reflects a methodological
approach based in Cultural and Translation Studies.