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Title

Subversive Representations in Tirso’s Amazonas en las Indias

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-30-2022

Publication Title

Romance Notes

Volume Number

62

Issue Number

1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2022.0004

Abstract

This article analyzes how the characters of the Amazons in Tirso de Molina’s "Amazonas en las Indias" (1635) recall the categorized distinction between the European ‘civilized’ man and the perceived ‘uncivilized’ Amerindian woman. It argues that the perceivable rudimentary façade usually ascribed to America and Amerindians contrasts with the sophisticated portrayal of Tirso’s characters and breaks discursive conventions in order to question the validity of these representations and conventional ideas about the American continent.

First Page

153

Last Page

164

Link Out URL

https://doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2022.0004

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