Identity in early modern Spanish theater
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In my dissertation, I analyze the ways in which hegemonic discourse was challenged by the representations of Moriscos, Africans, women and captives within theatrical plays of the seventeenth-century. The representations employed in these texts contest the definition of the exemplary Spanish subject as set forth by the Church and the Crown. I examine how gender, race, and religion are used to not only enforce hegemonic discourse but also to defy it. In all the works that I will be analyzing, the possibility of agency is present through the construction of identities, and the authors of the texts I will be analyzing consistently reconfigured the positions of their subjects. More than seeing how the Other is represented, I analyze how they deliver their own unique discourses of resistance but also observe how the hegemonic discourse was applied, at times in overpowering ways.
DOI: 10.25820/etd.007581
Author: McGowan, Mackenzi
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6889647769
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