Papers by Barbara Simerka
This book uses the postcolonial and decolonial models of reading first introduced by Edward Said ... more This book uses the postcolonial and decolonial models of reading first introduced by Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism to explore plays by Cervantes, Lope, TIrso, Alarcón and others. The book explores siege drama and Indiano characters in several plays. It also study the poem Gatomaquia from a postcolonial stance.
Bulletin of The Comediantes, 2020
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Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 2012
Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature, 2016
Cine Y Memoria 2007 Isbn 978 84 96915 05 3 Pags 121 134, 2007
Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of …, 1998
Hispanic Review, 2002
HOMOSOCIALITY AND DRAMATIC CONFLICT: A RECONSIDERATION OF EARLY MODERN SPANISH COMEDY ... ;2 INCE... more HOMOSOCIALITY AND DRAMATIC CONFLICT: A RECONSIDERATION OF EARLY MODERN SPANISH COMEDY ... ;2 INCE the publication in 1985 of Eve Kosofsky ;9;§ * 51 Sedgwick's ground-breaking analysis of English i: CZ : t literaw representations of male bonding in ...
Bulletin of the Comediantes, 1995
Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism examines the often uncommented "presence" of ... more Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism examines the often uncommented "presence" of the colonial in 19th- and 20th-century European literature which is not "about" the colonial experience. One focus of this work is the role of liminal figures, usually Europeans who are altered by their encounters with native cultures. With some important modifications, Said's book provides a useful paradigm for studies of minority discourses in Golden Age literature. While the year 1992 gave rise to a much-needed examination of the comedia's representation of the New World and its inhabitants, these studies tended to focus on the Spanish presence in the Americas, and on the peoples encountered there. Much less attention has been granted to the representation of the indiano as a presence in Spain. In plays including La verdad sospechosa, Marta la piadosa, and Coda loco con su tema, an indiano plays a crucial role in the dénouement of action which takes place in Spain. The indiano functions as a liminal figure because he is simultaneously a Spaniard, by blood, and a dangerous Other, by virtue of exotic birth and experiences. Such a duality gives rise to an interesting phenomenon in the plays under consideration: there is not a uniform or consistent representation of the indiano figure. This article's analysis of the liminality of the indiano seeks to serve as an exemplum for the study of the representation of many marginalized groups of early modern Spain, including the converso, morisco, and upwardly mobile peasant. (BS)
Bulletin of the Comediantes, 1997
El arte nuevo de estudiar comedias Literary Theory and Spanish Golden Age Drama Edited by BARBARA... more El arte nuevo de estudiar comedias Literary Theory and Spanish Golden Age Drama Edited by BARBARA SIMERKA This anthology of "new" approaches to literary study takes its name from Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias. Like Lope's poem on poetics, this ...
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 2004
Debates concerning Spain's imperial policy were waged throughout the early modern period. This st... more Debates concerning Spain's imperial policy were waged throughout the early modern period. This study explores two plays written during the waning years of imperial activity. The Rojas Zorrilla diptych, Numancia cercada and Numancia destruida, and González de Bustos' Los españoles en Chile recycle many of the techniques employed by Cervantes' Numancia and Lope de Vega's Arauco domado over half a century earlier. The two dramatists incorporate significant plot innovations and aesthetic deviations from their earlier models; however, the contradictory representation of European conqueror and of indigenous otherness remained consistent. This consistency is not an indication of slavish imitation on the part of late baroque writers. Rather, they document the persistence of discourses which simultaneously demonize the object of conquest and also romanticize that other. Contradictory representations of conquered peoples persist to this very day, as documented in the field of postcolonial scholarship. Resumen Los debates sobre la política imperial española persistieron a lo largo del Siglo de Oro. Este estudio explora dos dramas escritos durante los años finales de la actividad imperial. El díptico de Rojas Zorrilla, Numancia cercada y Numancia destruida, y González de Bustos en Los españoles en Chile reciclan muchas técnicas empleadas por Cervantes en Numancia y por Lope de Vega en Arauco domado, medio siglo antes. Los dos dramaturgos incorporan innovaciones de argumentos y estética de los modelos anteriores; pero la repetición contradictoria del conquistador europeo y la del indígena como ajena permanece consistente. Esta consistencia no implica ninguna imitación servil por parte de los autores del barroco tardío, más bien documentan la persistencia de los discursos que simultáneamente presentan al objeto de la conquista como diabólico y lo romantizan. Las representaciones contradictorias del otro conquistado persisten hoy en día tal y como documenta el campo de estudios postcoloniales.
Anuario de estudios cervantinos, 2008
Información del artículo Two characters defying their authors: Don Quijote and stranger than fict... more Información del artículo Two characters defying their authors: Don Quijote and stranger than fiction.
Letras femeninas, 2009
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Revista de estudios hispánicos, 1999
Información del artículo Early Modern Literature and Contemporary Feminist Philosophy: Alison Jag... more Información del artículo Early Modern Literature and Contemporary Feminist Philosophy: Alison Jaggar, Carol Gilligan and Ana Caro's El conde Partinuplés.
American Drama (Summer 2005), 2005
Anuario De Estudios Cervantinos, 2005
inCe its advent over two millennia ago, tragic drama has captivated us: as audiences, readers, ph... more inCe its advent over two millennia ago, tragic drama has captivated us: as audiences, readers, philosophers, and literary scholars. At the close of the last century, there was a brief decline of interest in genre theory as an academic enterprise, when poststructuralist approaches shifted emphasis away from the analysis of form in order to highlight issues of ideology and identity. Currently, we are witnessing a rebirth and reconsideration of a genre-oriented theory of tragedy, often informed by the insights of materialist and postmodern studies. Recent advances in cognitive study have also brought to light new knowledge about the human categorization processes, such as the prototype effect, that can inform genre theory. In the present essay, I will use these developments in genre study and prototype theory as points of departure to offer an extended review of the anthology Hacia la tragedia áurea: Lecturas para un nuevo milenio , edited by Frederick de Armas, Luciano García-Lorenzo, and Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Prototype theories of categorization provide insights into both the history and current status of tragedy theory, illuminating such diverse aspects as the enduring legacy of Aristotelian approaches, how the canon of prized tragedies changes over time, and the status of hybrid dramatic forms. Over the past two decades, cognitive psychologists have undertaken a thorough reconsideration of the psychological, cultural, and social factors that influence the processes of category formation as an intellectual process. One of the leading figures in this field, George Lakoff unites research from various strands of cognitive neuroscience in order to propose a new interdisciplinary model of categorization as mental and social activities. In his groundbreaking study, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Lakoff asserts that the classical model of categorization, based on the identification of "shared properties," is not incorrect but incomplete (5-7). The new paradigm of prototype theory, associated most strongly with the work of Eleanor Rosch, takes into account such factors as preferences within any given category. This approach reveals
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Papers by Barbara Simerka
Felipe E. Rojas, University of Chicago
Morisca Acts of Resistance and the Subversive Agency of Isabel/Zelima in María de Zayas’s La esclava de su amante
Bradford Ellis, St. Norbert College
War Machines: Instrumentality and Empire in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Cory A. Reed, The University of Texas at Austin
From the Roman Baroque to the Indian Jungle: Francis Xavier’s Letters from Goa, or the Construction of a God
Frédéric Conrod, Florida Atlantic University