“Todos juraron de morir por paganos”: Anti- <i>morisco</i> Poetic Propaganda During and After the Alpujarras War

Abstract This article analyzes two poems published in chapbooks during and after the Spanish-Morisco conflict known as the Alpujarras War (1568–1571), both of which transmit maurophobic sentiments: Relación agora nuevamente compuesta del levantamiento y Guerra del reyno de Granada by Bartholomé de Flores Colchero and Alonso Parejo Blanco, and El pleito de los moriscos con el perro de Alva, attributed to Juan de Trasmiera. The texts exhibit a poetic style composed, printed, and circulated in Spain as anti-morisco propaganda at a moment when the fate of the moriscos had reached a critical moment in Spanish history.