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First published: June 1, 2025 - Last updated: June 1, 2025
TITLE INFORMATION
Speaker: Antonio J. Arraiza-Rivera
Title: “También son alguien las mujeres”
Subtitle: Gender, Readership, and Violence in Solís’s Hermafrodito y Sálmacis
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025) - Online Program
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature III: Reversals and Contestations (Chair: John Slater)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
17th Century |
European History:
Spanish History |
Mythological Offenders /
Salmacis;
Cases:
Mythological Victims /
Hermaphroditus;
Types:
Rape /
Attempted Rape;
Representations:
Literary Texts /
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Speaker:
Antonio J. Arraiza-Rivera,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Wellesley College -
Academia.edu
Abstract:
»This paper analyzes Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneira’s Hermafrodito y Sálmacis. An example of a fábula mitológica burlesca, Solís’ poem exhibits the well-known characteristics proper to the subgenre of humorous poetry on mythological episodes common in seventeenth-century Spain. However, given its subject (a retelling of the Hermaphroditus and Salmacis story), the work’s explicit acknowledgement of female readers beckons to be read in light of early Modern Spanish lyric’s engagement with discourses on love, consent, and sexual violence. As one of the few myths that depict the attempted rape of a man at the hands of a woman, this paper interrogates Solis’ treatment of the episode and the role accorded to female characters and readers, paying attention to the logic of parodic reversal that accounts for much of the subgenre’s supposed humor.«
(Source: Online Program)
Wikipedia:
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Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra |
Myth:
Greek mythology /
Hermaphroditus,
Salmacis |
Sex and the law:
Rape /
History of rape
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