V95.0951

Topics

Porous identities: Sex, race, and violence in Cervantes and Zayas

Professor Georgina Dopico Black

Fall 2008

Wed 12:30 – 3:45pm

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Through close readings of the Novelas ejemplares (1613) of Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) and the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647) of María de Zayas, the course explores the construction –and porousness— of various forms of identities in the early modern period and how these overlap with questions of race and religion, violence, sex and gender, love and the law, subjectivity and subjection, and nation formation in Renaissance Spain. Readings include the short story collections of Cervantes and Zayas, accompanied by critical and historical texts. In Spanish.