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Combining a rich depiction of historical customs with genuine admiration for the Muslim legacy of Andalucia, El feri de Benastepar is a previously unknown novel by Spanish writer Jose Miguel Hue y Camacho (1803-1841) that relates the doomed romance between Castilian lady Elvira de Castro and the eponymous feri de Benastepar, Abenamet, a morisco chief. This book provides an annotated edition of El feri de Benastepar, based on the two surviving manuscripts of the novel. The introduction provides an up-to-date biographical and critical assessment of Hue y Camacho and contextualises El feri de Benastepar both as a product of Romantic orientalism - a 'local' orientalism directed by Andalusian writers towards the past of their own lands - and as part of the Romantic revival of the early modern 'Moorish novel' that took place in the first half of the nineteenth century, both in Spain and abroad. Notes provide clarification on lexical issues well as on the medieval and early modern sources of the novel. El feri de Benastepar es una novela historica inedita del escritor espanol Jose Miguel Hue y Camacho (1803-1841). El texto combina una rica descripcion de usos y costumbres con una admiracion genuina por el legado musulman de Andalucia. La novela relata el malhadado romance entre la dama castellana Elvira de Soto y el caudillo morisco Abenamet -el ""feri"" de Benastepar-, con la primera Rebelion de las Alpujarras (1499-1501) como telon de fondo. Este libro ofrece una edicion anotada de El feri de Benastepar, basada en los dos manuscritos que se conservan de la novela. La introduccion ofrece una valoracion biografica y critica actualizada de Hue y Camacho, y contextualiza la novela tanto como producto del orientalismo romantico -un orientalismo ""local"" dirigido por los escritores andaluces hacia el pasado de sus propias tierras- como en el marco de la recuperacion romantica de la ""novela morisca"" en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, tanto en Espana como en el extranjero. Las notas aportan aclaraciones sobre cuestiones lexicas y sobre las fuentes medievales y modernas del texto.

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This previously unedited novel is a significant contribution to our knowledge of nineteenth-century writers like Miguel Hue y Camacho who opted to reimagine the relations between Christians and Moors during the Morisco rebellions following the fall of Granada. Luckily, El feri de Benastepar has found itself in the capable hands of editors Javier Munoz de Morales Galiana and Daniel Munoz Sempere, who offer us a wide window into the originality and multiple sources of the novel. -- Lou Charnon-Deutsch * Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University *

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