Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America From: Frontiers | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Spellberg, D A | Copyright University of Nebraska Press 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Today, if you drive north on U.S. Highway 84 through Pennsylvania, just before you cross the Delaware River into New York State, a sign for the town of Matamoras appears. When I first saw the name one summer en route from Texas, I assumed with surprise that people in Pennsylvania must have had some direct connection to Santiago, the patron saint of the Spanish Reconquest since his miraculous military intervention in driving the Muslims from Spain had earned him the honorific Matamores, or Kil...

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