{"title":"Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama","authors":"Christopher D. Gascón","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Diversity and inclusivity have guided many scholars of Hispanic Golden Age drama in their attempts to cover new ground and incorporate fresh insights in the first quarter of the twenty-first century on early modern theater written in Spanish. The six essays in this special issue provide a sampling of that spirit, exploring themes such as physical, ethnic, and political otherness, the dynamics of gender and caste in professional theater, and the ability of music to communicate transcendence and reconcile sacred and secular. Authors included are Glenda Nieto-Cuebas, Pablo García Piñar, Erin Cowling, Sharon Voros, Susan Paun de García, and J. Yuri Porras. They discuss the theatrical work of Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Diego Sánchez de Badajoz, Ignacio Amestoy, Ainhoa Amestoy, Bernarda Ramírez, and Petronila Jibaja.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42500214","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}
{"title":"Diego Sánchez de Badajoz’s Musical Farsas: The Significance of El juego de las cañas","authors":"J. Yuri Porras","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Music in Iberian early modern theater presents the complex challenge of recovery and coherent contextualization, especially in PreLopean theater. Diego Sánchez de Bajadoz deserves more attention not merely because some of his works operate as proto-zarzuelas but also because his drama pertains to a declining cycle in the trajectory of Spanish sacred theater. This essay will focus on how Diego Sánchez utilized music to intensify and inspirit sacred scripture to reclaim its luster, particularly in Farsa del juego de las cañas, alternating villancicos, coplas, hymns, singing, and dancing that bridged Iberian primitive and early modern musical thought, dramatic structure, and performance practice.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42925234","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}
{"title":"Lope Enters with His Entourage: Metatheatricality in Ignacio Amestoy’s Lope y sus Doroteas","authors":"Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200097","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines how Lope de Vega is brought to center stage as a character in the recent theater production Lope y sus Doroteas o cuando Lope quiere, quiere (2021), written by Ignacio Amestoy and directed by Ainhoa Amestoy. The play explores Lope’s last years, his literary work, his relationship with his youngest and illegitimate daughter, Antonia Clara, and his personal struggles. This analysis delves into some theatrical choices used in this production to craft the narrative and highlight Lope’s own obsessions and self-absolution through his relationship with his younger daughter. More specifically, it explores how metatheatrical devices draw attention to Lope’s past, present, and future as he confronts his own mistakes, love affairs, his daughter’s intimate relationship with a womanizer, and his own impending death.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49298828","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}
{"title":"The Criticism is Coming from Inside the Casa: Sor Juana’s Colonial Critique","authors":"E. Cowling","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200095","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The debates surrounding Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s fictional work have frequently centered on her use of autobiographical details to inform her characterizations and plots. In Los empeños de una casa, Sor Juana incorporates not only her personal details but also her deep connections to Mexico as a colonized state, to an extent not yet fully explored by scholars. Thus, she breaks the rules of her peninsular counterparts, and subsequently critiques Spain as an imperial power under the guise of a simple comedia de capa y espada. Although the gracioso servant, Castaño, has always been obviously a colonial figure, there are arguments that two more of the protagonists have New World roots. As the play progresses, we find they can overcome the machinations of their peninsular foils at least in part due to their outsider status, ultimately demonstrating a kinder, gentler form of living and loving. Given the play’s original intended audience of religious and secular powers, this demonstrates not only Sor Juana’s subtle genius, but her ability to fly under the radar of her potential censors, ultimately foreshadowing the issues that would arise as Spain’s reach grew into an uncontrollably large empire, destined to fail.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43472797","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}
{"title":"Making It Abroad: Bernarda Ramírez (Naples) and Petronila Jibaja (Lisbon)","authors":"Susan Paun de García","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From earliest times, the life of actors or actresses was a sort of “escaparate” or showcase, always on display. Much like today’s gliteratti, they were both admired and looked down upon. If the acting profession was seen as morally reprehensible in general, the attitude toward women was no less critical. Given social norms that saw the female sex almost exclusively in terms of her body and the female actor in terms of her class, women ought to know their place and keep to it. That actresses were free to look, act, dress, and behave like their “betters” represented a threat to social and moral order, a threat as often condemned from the pulpit as confirmed in the news sources of the time. Nevertheless, then as now, a good scandal—one involving the highest levels of society and carried on abroad—could “make” one’s career. Two examples of “making it” abroad—a hundred years apart—are Bernarda Ramírez (1615?–1662) and Petronila Jibaja (1692–1763). Both were of humble origin, both were admired, favored, and kept by aristocrats abroad, and both returned to Spain with fame and fortune that they were able to maintain until their careers ended.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43039834","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}
{"title":"The Unstageable Birth of the Crip Galán: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Las paredes oyen","authors":"Pablo García Piñar","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Las paredes oyen is not an ordinary comedia. Its verses portray the embodied and social experience of disability in seventeenth-century Spain from the insider perspective of a disabled person. The play had a successful eighteen-year run in the Habsburg Court of Philip IV, but, paradoxically, it was never performed as Ruiz de Alarcón originally envisioned. Archival evidence shows that the play’s main character, a man with an undisclosed bodily deformity, was consistently portrayed as bodily normative. The present study delves into the logic behind such an intentional omission, ascribing these attitudes toward the staging of deviant corporealities in leading parts to both the principles of dramatic decorum and theater’s financial reliance on the audiences’ preferences. In addition to inviting playgoers to experience life as a person with a disability vicariously, Ruiz de Alarcón’s ultimate intention in Las paredes oyen is to challenge the way in which non-normative bodies were traditionally represented in Golden Age theater. To convey his message, Ruiz de Alarcón bent the rules of decorum in the characterization of the leading man, a departure from the playwriting conventions of the Arte nuevo that led to a bitter dispute with Lope de Vega.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46222729","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}
{"title":"Painting in Casanova’s Paris","authors":"Rori Bloom","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2164655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2164655","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although Casanova’s memoirs appear to tell the story of his erotic adventures, this article argues that Part 3 Chapter 13 of the Histoire de ma vie is organized around an interrogation of esthetics. Specifically, in the last chapter recounting his first stay in Paris, Casanova evokes different paintings and painters to develop his own ideas on representation. In explaining his relationship to portraits of Louise O’Murphy (a mistress of Louis XV) and the duchesse de Chartres as well as to the painters Sanson and Francesco Casanova (a brother of the author), the writer questions the painter’s goal of producing a realistic representation. Valuing paintings not only for their truth but also for their beauty, Casanova at the same time redefines the aims of writing, offering the reader a way to appreciate his autobiography less as an accurate relation of his life but as an artistic creation.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44258018","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}
{"title":"The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America","authors":"A. Kaempfer","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2164661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2164661","url":null,"abstract":"Santiago Acosta is the PRODiG Fellow at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Old Westbury, with a dual appointment in the Department of Modern Languages and the History and Philosophy Department. He holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. His academic research centers on modern and contemporary Latin American cultural production, which he analyzes through the lenses of critical theory, political economy, and environmental history.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49311361","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}
{"title":"Necropolítica del himen naturalista: virginidad, excedentes de vida y poder soberano en Santa (1903), El hijo del Estado (1884) y El himen en México (1885)","authors":"Carlos Gustavo Halaburda","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2164658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2164658","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sexual practices disassociated from the intimate family milieu and its reproductive futures were considered a betrayal against collective national wealth in fin-de-siècle Mexican Naturalism. One of the best-known scenes of the punishment for delitos de incontinencia (sexual incontinency) appears in Santa (1903), a representative urban novel by Federico Gamboa. Santa was perhaps the most widely read fiction about prostitution in early twentieth-century Latin America. At the same time, it had a moralistic agenda that combined medico-legal and religious discourse to stigmatize premarital sex. The novel was not only a literary rendition of sex trafficking in modern Mexico City, it was also a portrayal of the defamation endured by plebeian pregnant women, whose loss of virginity outside marriage left them exposed to sexual exploitation. With an emphasis on the scene of Santa’s miscarriage, this article analyzes the interruption of gestation as a punishment of a sovereign male narrator against the young woman’s premarital sex with her lover, the soldier Marcelino Beltrán. Likewise, I contextualize the novelist’s fixation with virginity and the hymen through a dialogue with a series of texts on obstetrics and legal medicine, which includes the medical treatise El hímen en México (1885) [The Hymen in Mexico] by the pharmacist Francisco A. Flores and the novel El hijo del Estado (1884) [The Son of the State] by Hilarión Frías y Soto.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49502899","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}
{"title":"Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative","authors":"Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2164663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2164663","url":null,"abstract":"text, da Cunha’s “essay of national interpretation seeking to offer a historical or social explanation of the specific features that characterize the country’s dynamics” is paradigmatic (214). Uriarte remarks on da Cunha’s references “to the figure of the traveler, the walker, or the observer who roams the region of the sertão,” which in the second part of da Cunha’s book will characterize the Conselheiro himself as a nomadic figure (215). In each case, this traveler’s agency is defined by the challenge of making sense of places conceived as ravaging landscapes, hosting an even more brutal war between the government and local resistances. Uriarte goes back to works he previously analyzed in this study to underline a fluid, mobile, and totalizing reality that needed to be subjected, “organized,” by the state once it is cleaned up from the disruptions caused by the process of transformation and consolidation of the same state (222). The final stage of that organization, however, as Uriarte previously demonstrated with regard to Burton, Hudson, and Moreno—created over the void assured by the war or articulated over a war-like background—becomes the ruins, or the ruined expression of the progress that would come with the war. The initial forces and programs culminating in a long colonial and national construction process would face challenges, both expected and unexpected, over the course of the following century. Uriarte’s book is a great contribution to specialized and non-specialized readers of the XIX Century Latin American literature, history, and political process as well as interdisciplinary approaches to war and national construction processes.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48558271","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}