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This chapter studies the literary trope of the hag. The works chosen for examination, Fernando de Rojas’s La Celestina (1499, 1502), Cervantes’s Diálogo de los perros [Dialogue of the Dogs] (1613), Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599, 1604) and Francisco de Quevedo’s El Buscón [The Swindler] (1626) as well as his satiric poetry, are representative of the evolution of elderly women characters in Early Modern Spanish literature. Using disability and aging theories, the chapter focuses the analysis on the major components of their depiction: their defective bodies, their relation to the healing arts (midwives) and sexual activities, their proclivity to practice witchcraft, and their inefficient role as mothers. The objective is to illustrate the mechanisms involved in the construction of aging female disability in the imaginary of the period.
本章研究母夜叉的文学修辞。Fernando de Rojas的La Celestina(1499, 1502)，塞万提斯的Diálogo de los perros (1613)， Mateo Alemán的Guzmán de Alfarache(1599, 1604)和Francisco de Quevedo的El Buscón (The Swindler)(1626)以及他的讽刺诗被选为考试作品，代表了早期现代西班牙文学中老年女性角色的演变。利用残疾和衰老理论，本章重点分析了她们描述的主要组成部分:她们有缺陷的身体，她们与治疗艺术(助产士)和性活动的关系，她们练习巫术的倾向，以及她们作为母亲的低效角色。目的是阐明在虚构的时期中涉及老年女性残疾建构的机制。
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