ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.2017242
Laura Muñoz
{"title":"This Bitch: Self-Fashioning and Social Media in an Adaptation of El perro del hortelano","authors":"Laura Muñoz","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.2017242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.2017242","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines how self-representational practices in the online sphere have been interpreted in an adaptation of Lope de Vega’s play El perro del hortelano (1618). This Bitch: Esta Sangre Quiero, written by playwright Adrienne Dawes and performed on Zoom as part of the University of Arkansas virtual ArkType Festival in January 2021, reimagines the role of honor and honra in the early modern court as analogous to the clout or status of influencers which dominant social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube. The delicate balancing act that nobles in comedia must master to navigate between desire and reputation is reflected in Dawes’s adaptation in the juxtaposition of the private selves and the performative selves which influencers display for followers to consume. This article thus explores how this recent adaptation engages with performative identities/identity as performance as a natural through line between the social context of the original play and the self-fashioning practices of today’s rich and (internet) famous. In this version of Lope’s story, the countess Diana becomes a Pilates instructor and pansexual goddess, while the secretary Teodoro is reimagined as her talented, but unknown, social media manager. Although this adaptation was imagined for performance on a traditional theater stage, the social commentary became so much more pointed when examined through the meta-layer of online performance: as we examine the lives of people who mediate their identity via screens using the Zoom screen itself, the audience becomes complicit in the self-fashioning strategies of the characters.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"103 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41320927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.2017239
E. Cowling, E. Fernández, Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
{"title":"Introduction: The Comedia Under Siege","authors":"E. Cowling, E. Fernández, Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.2017239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.2017239","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This introduction engages with the meaning and socio-cultural impact of a variety of artistic contributions within the realm of Hispanic theater that have been carried out in the Spanish-speaking world in order to keep production of the comedia afloat during the confinement due to COVID-19. It discusses what this implies for an inherently live medium such as the theater and, ultimately, introduces the content of the rest of the volume.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"59 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41420099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.2017241
E. Cowling
{"title":"Confinement, COVID, and the Comedia in Mexico City","authors":"E. Cowling","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.2017241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.2017241","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the arts, particularly the performing arts, where live audiences are an important part of the creative process. In spite of the immense roadblocks created by this crisis, artists around the world began to shift their craft online. No where do we see a more rapid shift than in Mexico City, propelled in part by the theater department at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. This paper will look at the ways in which small theater companies were able to move their current productions online in the weeks following the shutdown, and how they evolved over the course of 2020 and into 2021, innovating and creating new digital-theatrical spaces via platforms like Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook live.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"93 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44769442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.2017238
Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
{"title":"Grumelot & Escuela Nave 73: Defying Traditional Stage Presence Through Digital Media","authors":"Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.2017238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.2017238","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As COVID-19 brought significant changes to the art industry, it forced creators to re-invent the way they collaborate and produce their work. Within Hispanic Classical Theater, these unforeseen circumstances led playwrights, directors, and performers to seek new ideas and venues of dissemination that may change the course of Spanish comedia productions for years to come. However, the proliferation of these digital productions raises several questions: How can multimedia outlets be used effectively to capture the audience’s attention and engage them in the same way as traditional theater? How can they create a sense of intimacy and recreate the perception of being present in the absence of the in-person theatrical experience? In order to answer these questions and to understand how these challenges can be overcome, this article examines the multimedia play Y es mayor dolor la ausencia que la muerte (Grumelot and Escuela Nave 73). A digital and interactive show that attempts to overcome the limitations imposed by digital broadcasting and implements social presence elements that allow the performers to create a sense of connectedness with the audience.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"374 2","pages":"83 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41286545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2022.2028271
Barbara Fuchs
{"title":"The Comedia Unbound","authors":"Barbara Fuchs","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2022.2028271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2022.2028271","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was disastrous for theater companies everywhere, the comedia was arguably energized by its constraints. The En compañía de los clásicos initiative in Spain, the theatrical presentations at the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) virtual conference in July 2020, and the reimagined virtual LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater suggest that 2020 may have been a banner year for comedia. The engagement with the classics by cutting-edge companies producing durational, site-specific, participatory, and immersive theater revealed novel artistic possibilities and engaged new audiences, radically transforming the sense of what is possible when staging the corpus. At the same time, and even as individual companies grappled with the impact of the pandemic, the larger institutional landscape of theater in Spain continued to promote a transatlantic narrative of comedia that argues for its relevance beyond Spain itself. The comedia thus appears doubly unbound: newly freed from formal constraints, and promoted in and to a broader geography.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"64 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42644116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.2018670
Peter Mahoney
{"title":"Rape, Sex, Violence, and Disgrace in the Legends and Epic Texts of Medieval Spain","authors":"Peter Mahoney","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.2018670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.2018670","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article identifies and explores two ways in which sex and violence are manifested in several medieval Spanish texts. In the first group of stories analyzed, rape and sexually-related violence are condemned as treacherous affronts that result in the dishonor of the female victim as well as a male figure in her orbit—namely, her father or her betrothed. Nevertheless, these episodes shed light on the admirable qualities of key female characters and often contribute to the heroic construct of the male protagonist. In the second group, the victims’ roles are limited to enduring a sexual indignity—concubinage or rape—and bearing the illegitimate child who will restore lost order. The narrators celebrate the degradation of these noblewomen as a manifestation of heroic prowess, and they either delight in her family’s disgrace or disregard the matter of honor entirely. All the episodes in question, some of which are violent in nature, add a layer of dramatism to the narration, and perhaps struck a chord with the audience on a human level. Considering some similarities between details in the stories and documented cases of sexual violence, we might imagine that the female characters inspired women who comprised a reading or listening public to act with equal bravery and resilience while navigating the dangerously male dominated world in which they lived.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"158 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44806884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1997069
Alicia Cerezo
{"title":"La última carta de José Luis Guerin a Jonas Mekas: La estética de la empatía en la mirada cinematográfica","authors":"Alicia Cerezo","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1997069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1997069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract La última carta fílmica de José Luis Guerin a Jonas Mekas (2011) para la exposición Todas las cartas. Correspondencias fílmicas constituye un diálogo intimista entre sus orígenes como cineasta, el reciente tsunami acaecido en Japón y el viaje místico realizado por él a este país un año antes, entre otras cosas, para renovar la botella de sake que el año previo había dejado en la tumba de Yasujiro Ozu como homenaje a otro de sus maestros en el cine. Tras los casos de violencia histórica comentados en las cartas anteriores, la mirada estática, estética y dialéctica sobre los libros y otros objetos de su pasado en Barcelona, sobre los gestos de las mujeres que limpian pausada y alegremente el cementerio, sobre las hormigas que suben una pequeña ramita por la tumba de Ozu o sobre las hojas movidas por el viento se manifiesta como la mejor arma para trascender el yo y reconocer al otro, eliminando la dicotomía sujeto-objeto. Desde un giro estético que abandona posicionamientos universalistas y preceptivos, Guerin enseña la capacidad del cine para desarrollar el pausado y personal compromiso con lo que hay más allá de la cámara, impulsando un acercamiento antirreduccionista que necesita de tiempo para establecer la continuidad entre el yo y el otro. De esta manera, se rompe la división entre forma y contenido, imágenes y discurso, lo individual y lo cultural y, en definitiva, se promueve la simbiosis entre ética, estética y empatía.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41878444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1997068
J. Ardila
{"title":"El ‘absurdo existential’ en Mortal y rosa de Francisco Umbral","authors":"J. Ardila","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1997068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1997068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A partir de unas declaraciones de Francisco Umbral, en las que apuntaba que Mortal y rosa se concibió como obra sobre el “absurdo existencial,” este artículo acomete un análisis textual del tema de la muerte y la existencia en esa novela o, según se expresa en ella, de la concepción de la vida como “navegación agónica hacia la muerte.” Sopesamos primeramente la muerte del hijo, el deseo sexual y la literatura como temáticas subsidiarias del tema de la vida y la muerte. Analizamos, después, tres procedimientos por medio de los cuales se resalta esa materia a lo largo del texto: (1) los verbos y su conjugación, (2) los recuerdos en clave melancólica y (3) los aforismos relativos a ese tema. Todo ello nos llevará a concluir que Mortal y rosa se concibió como expresión del tema del tempus fugit y que debería reconocerse como ejemplo señero de esa tradición literaria.","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"29 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48774095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ROMANCE QUARTERLYPub Date : 2021-11-05DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1997071
M. Carosi
{"title":"El arte queer del fracaso en Santiago de João Moreira Salles","authors":"M. Carosi","doi":"10.1080/08831157.2021.1997071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08831157.2021.1997071","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN En el presente art ıculo se estudia c omo se representa el fracaso en Santiago (Uma reflex~ ao sobre o material bruto) (2007), un documental dirigido por el brasile~ no Jo~ao Moreira Salles. En este contexto, mi an alisis relaciona la falla del mayordomo con lo que Jack Halberstam llama “el arte queer del fracaso” [queer art of failure]; es decir, en este caso, el fracaso como de acto de resistencia ante la conservaci on de la memoria patriarcal. De all ı, propongo que Santiago ayuda a repensar, por ejemplo, el impedimento de di alogo entre clases como un fen omeno mediado por la sexualidad disidente. En concreto, estudio las t ecnicas del director que ante el testimonio de su mayordomo usa para reapropiarlo y as ı limpiarlo de todo rastro queer. PALABRAS CLAVES fracaso; queer; mayordomo; Santiago; Jo~ao Moreira Salles","PeriodicalId":41843,"journal":{"name":"ROMANCE QUARTERLY","volume":"69 1","pages":"42 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45116375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}