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Jesús David Jerez Gómez
Following Cervantes's critical approach, inspired by Aristotle in his use of fiction to address the analysis of human nature, the Mediterranean is presented as a medium for the exploration of points of convergence and exchange in which, instead of frontiers and differences, we find hybridity and cultural connections. Parting from well-known critical approaches to the Mediterranean (Braudel, Horden, Purcell) and to Cervantes (Bloom, Egginton, Close, Garces) Affective Geographies advocates for presenting literature for its capacity to represent human emotion and hybridity as influential in constructing the image and identity of a region, like the Mediterranean, as other more regarded factors such as geographical, climatic and economic, do thus influence popular imagery and cultural landscapes as well. Chapter 3, "Shadows of the Inquisition: Honour, Shame, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean 'Values'" focuses on the concept of shame to study Don Quixote's encagement episode to uncover and illustrate the "discourse of shaming" as an inquisitorial practice. In chapter 4, "A Mediterranean (Tragi) Comedy: Sancho, Ricote, and the Emotional Politics of Laughter," Johnson challenges the reductionist conception of the novel as a funny book inviting a more "critical engagement with laughter as a passion" that would benefit our understanding of the novel.
