Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater (eBook)

Gladys Robalino (Herausgeber)

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2014
294 Seiten
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-611-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanish Comedias. The chapters in this collection bring different approaches and perspectives that intersect between feminism and cultural studies while they also critically deconstruct the European representation of Amerindian women.

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Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater is a collection of essays that focuses on the female Amerindian characters in comedias based on the discovery, exploration, and conquest of America. This book emerges as a response to the limited number of studies that focus on these characters, and more importantly, on the function of these characters as theatrical artifacts within conquest plays. Conquest plays are about a handful, their heroes are the European male conquerors, yet ';the Amerindian' has attracted attention from critics for the value as constructs of cultural discourse. We see this character, the ';theatrical Indian,' as a construct, an instrument, in many ways, a spectacular artifact of the baroque tramoya, which emerges from the conversion point of the Counterreformation ideology. It has been our purpose here to advance the study of these characters by adding a gender perspective. Therefore, while sociological and cultural studies are still a fundamental part of the theoretical framework of this project, we use feminism as a critical matrix in our inquiries. Amerindian female characters stand apart from male Amerindians and Spanish women in dramas, which, we believe, make them worthy of individual attention. The articles in this collection delineate different representations of Amerindian women and, as a whole, this book contributes to a better understanding of the dramatic use of these characters.

Autor

Gladys Robalino is associate professor at Messiah College.

Inhalt

Introduction, Gladys RobalinoChapter 1: Courting the Female Body: Towards a Poetics of the Conquest in Lope de Vega’s ElNuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón, Melissa FigueroaChapter 2: The Role of Amerindian Women in Fernando de Zárate’s La Conquista de México, Ronna S. Feit and Gladys RobalinoChapter 3: Amazonas en las Indias or Witches in the Amazon?: Representing Otherness through the Stereotype of the Witch,Glenda Y. Nieto-CuebasChapter 4: La aurora en Copacabana: Guacolda from Vestal Virgin to Virginal Model, Maria J.Ferrer-LightnerChapter 5: The Siren Song and the Enchanted Victim: The Portrayal of the Conquistadors and Tucapela in Palabras a los reyes y gloria de los Pizarros, Judith G. CaballeroChapter 6: Amazonas en las Indias: Mixed Marriages and the Pizarros’ Political Project, Gladys RobalinoChapter 7: Envisioning Guacolda, from Lyrical Creation to Ideological Manipulation, Esther FernándezChapter 8: La María sin Don: Subtle Mockery of the Establishment in El gobernador prudente, Erin Alice CowlingChapter 9: Love and Fury: The Evolution of Fresia in Arauco domado of Lope de Vega, María Quiroz TaubAfterword, Moisés R. CastilloBibliography About the Contributors Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2014
• Co-Autor: Judith G. Caballero, Erin Alice Cowling, Ronna Feit, Esther Fernandez, Maria Ferrer-Lightner, Melissa Figueroa, Glenda Nieto-Cuebas, Maria Luisa Quiroz Taub
• Nachwort: Moises R. Castillo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Area Studies • Gender Studies • Literary Studies • Luso-Hispanic Studies • Spain • TV, Film, and Stage
• ISBN-10: 1-61148-611-4 / 1611486114
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61148-611-7 / 9781611486117