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Journal Article
Homelands: Reevaluating Traditional Approaches to Cervantes Through Alternative Biographical Interpretation
2017
Overview
The purpose of this essay is to compare Cervantes's time as a captive in Algiers to the narrative presented in the television series Homeland, which includes a character who also spends time as a captive in Muslim lands, and who eventually becomes sympathetic to the project of his captors. Nevertheless, the purpose of this essay is not to prove or even earnestly suggest that Cervantes was a sixteenth/ seventeenth century version of a sleeper cell terrorist but instead take a reading of Cervantes's life and work by a fascist ideologue to an extreme in order to achieve two things: 1) provide a framework for \"negative\" reactions to Cervantes's biographical representations within the strictures of the contemporary field and the historical context of Golden Age Spain; while 2) shedding light on how political and cultural orientations impact literary interpretation despite efforts to ensure they do not. This project is thus a creative biographical re interpretation of Cervantes's biography coupled with a creative literary analysis of Homeland. My goal here is to advance the metacritical point that Cervantes's biography and works are generally read in a \"positive\" fashion, and consequently avoid possible \"negative\" interpretations of his sparse biography and murky prose. Yet, both his legacy and the inherent ambiguous and contradictive nature of his writing seem to demand (re)assessment of his life and work from every possible angle, no matter how unflattering and incongruous to contemporary attitudes.
