Thinking Allowed on Cultural Hybridity

Interesting discussion on the Radio 4, BBC program Thinking Allowed. Tariq Ali discusses and contextualizes the epic Don Quixote within a christianizing Spain which persecuted Jews and Muslims. He says that Cervantes scholars now generally believe that Cervantes was a converso. Also discussion of other stuff on cultural hybridity. I need to learn more about this.....

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