Raza, Género e Hibridez en El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (Spanish Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807892688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-28 |
| Language | : | Spanish |
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Language Notes Text: Spanish
Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity constitute unstable elements for the colonialist agenda proposed by the author.. She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers )
"Outstanding addition to 18th C. Span-American lit. criticism" according to Bonnie L. Gasior. Melendez's research in this fascinating book highlights the dinamic nature of cultural identity construction of the colonial subject and explores the elements of race and gender as components of the author's own colonial agenda (15). The first chapter of the book provides an overview of the book's contents and a detailed look at Carrio de la Vandera's life. The second examines the author's view of the indigenous peoples' otherness, which Melendez argues, is exploited by a discourse that underlines the indians' sexual deviance and lack of language mastery. The third chapter focuses on the auth