Female Amerindians in Early Modern Spanish Theater (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Robalino, Gladys

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216355892
• Artikelnr.: 74845697

Autorenporträt

Gladys Robalino is associate professor at Messiah College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Gladys Robalino Chapter 1: Courting the Female Body: Towards
a Poetics of the Conquest in Lope de Vega's El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por
Cristóbal Colón, Melissa Figueroa Chapter 2: The Role of Amerindian Women
in Fernando de Zárate's La Conquista de México, Ronna S. Feit and Gladys
Robalino Chapter 3: Amazonas en las Indias or Witches in the Amazon?:
Representing Otherness through the Stereotype of the Witch, Glenda Y.
Nieto-Cuebas Chapter 4: La aurora en Copacabana: Guacolda from Vestal
Virgin to Virginal Model, Maria J. Ferrer-Lightner Chapter 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.
Caballero Chapter 6: Amazonas en las Indias: Mixed Marriages and the
Pizarros' Political Project, Gladys Robalino Chapter 7: Envisioning
Guacolda, from Lyrical Creation to Ideological Manipulation, Esther
Fernández Chapter 8: La María sin Don: Subtle Mockery of the Establishment
in El gobernador prudente, Erin Alice Cowling Chapter 9: Love and Fury: The
Evolution of Fresia in Arauco domado of Lope de Vega, María Quiroz Taub
Afterword, Moisés R. Castillo Bibliography About the Contributors Index