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First published: June 1, 2025 - Last updated: June 1, 2025
TITLE INFORMATION
Speaker: Felipe Valencia
Title: Maritornes, the Right to Sex, and the Matter of Angelica in Cervantes’s Don Quijote
Subtitle: -
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 II: Justifications and Technologies (Chair: Elizabeth L. Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
17th Century |
European History:
Spanish History |
Cases:
Fictional Offenders /
Don Quijote;
Cases:
Fictional Victims /
Maritornes;
Types:
Sexual Assault;
Representations:
Literary Texts /
Miguel de Cervantes
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Speaker:
Felipe Valencia,
Department of World Languages and Cultures,
Utah State University -
Academia.edu,
Google Scholar,
Knowledge Commons,
ORCID
Abstract:
»Don Quijote’s sexual assault on Maritornes in part 1 of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605–1615), largely hidden in scholarship and teaching, derives from his erotic or, more properly, pornographic project: his quest to obtain erotic fulfillment and accompanying expectation that, as a knight errant, he has a “right to sex” (to borrow Amia Srinivasan’s recent formulation) with a certain kind of women. This project lies at the heart of his chivalric quest, on a par with his ethical and political goal of restoring the age of chivalry and his literary goal of composing a libro de caballerías. This paper analyzes Don Quijote’s assault on Maritornes in light of several contexts: the early modern burlesque motif of the feeble old man who cannot accomplish a rape; Don Quijote’s comments on the erotic exploits of knights errant; his interactions with adolescent young women, for instance Palomeque’s daughter and Altisidora; his explosive reaction to Maese Pedro’s puppet show; and particularly his angry appraisal of Angelica’s preference for the African infantryman Medoro over many Christian knights in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. This last episode, as I will show, allows us to unravel the hiddenness of sexual violence in Don Quijote.«
(Source: Online Program)
Wikipedia:
History of Europe:
History of Spain /
Habsburg Spain |
Fiction:
Fictional victims of sexual assault |
Literature:
Spanish literature /
Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote |
Sex and the law:
Sexual assault
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