Female Amerindians in early modern Spanish theater /

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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 represe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Robalino, Gladys (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2014]
Subjects:
1500-1700
Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Indian women in literature.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Indian women in literature
Spanish drama > Classical period
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • A Note on Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Courting the Female Body: Towards a Poetics of the Conquest in Lope de Vega's El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón
  • The Role of Amerindian Women in Fernando de Zárate's La Conquista de México
  • Amazonas en las Indias or Witches in the Amazon? Representing Otherness through the Stereotype of the Witch
  • La aurora en Copacabana : Guacolda from Vestal Virgin to Virginal Model
  • The Siren Song and the Enchanted Victim: The Portrayal of the Conquistadors and Tucapela in Palabras a los reyes y gloria de los Pizarros
  • Amazonas en las Indias : Mixed Marriages and the Pizarros' Political Project
  • Envisioning Guacolda, from Lyrical Creation to Ideological Manipulation
  • La María sin Don: Subtle Mockery of the Establishment in El gobernador prudente
  • Love and Fury: The Evolution of Fresia in Arauco domado of Lope de Vega
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors.

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