Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. She is author of The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain as well as cotranslator of Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, which are all available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Larissa Brewer-Garcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Aaron J. Ilika is an independent scholar and translator based in Portland, Oregon.

• ChronologyIntroductionPART I. THE NOVELLAS"The Abencerraje"Mateo AlemÁn, "OzmÍn and Daraja"PART II. CONTEXTSMoorish BalladsFrom GinÉs PÉrez de Hita, Civil Wars of GranadaEdicts and Official Documents Concerning the MoriscosFrom Francisco NÚÑez Muley, A Petition to the CourtBibliographyAcknowledgments

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. She is author of The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain as well as cotranslator of Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, which are all available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Larissa Brewer-Garcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Aaron J. Ilika is an independent scholar and translator based in Portland, Oregon.

• ChronologyIntroductionPART I. THE NOVELLAS"The Abencerraje"Mateo AlemÁn, "OzmÍn and Daraja"PART II. CONTEXTSMoorish BalladsFrom GinÉs PÉrez de Hita, Civil Wars of GranadaEdicts and Official Documents Concerning the MoriscosFrom Francisco NÚÑez Muley, A Petition to the CourtBibliographyAcknowledgments

Barbara Fuchs is Professor of Spanish and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the Clark Memorial Library. She is author of The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature and Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain as well as cotranslator of Cervantes's "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity, which are all available from University of Pennsylvania Press. Larissa Brewer-Garcia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Aaron J. Ilika is an independent scholar and translator based in Portland, Oregon.

• ChronologyIntroductionPART I. THE NOVELLAS"The Abencerraje"Mateo AlemÁn, "OzmÍn and Daraja"PART II. CONTEXTSMoorish BalladsFrom GinÉs PÉrez de Hita, Civil Wars of GranadaEdicts and Official Documents Concerning the MoriscosFrom Francisco NÚÑez Muley, A Petition to the CourtBibliographyAcknowledgments