Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1353/boc.2022.a927758
Zainab Cheema
Abstract:
This essay examines how Lope de Vega's Los melindres de Belisa, a comedia urbana composed circa 1608, represents the intersection of different types of slavery in Habsburg Spain. This play is especially pertinent to these questions as its composition coincided with the intense debates that culminated in Philip III's Order of the Expulsion of the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula (1609), a time when sub-Saharan slavery was also firmly established in peninsular Spain. Lope de Vega's comic genius yields a rich dramatic canvas for exploring how racialized representations of enslaved Moriscos and sub-Saharan peoples intersect and interpellate one another in Spanish public theater. An analysis of racial imagery and plot twists in Los melindres de Belisa shows that even though early modern Spanish discourse often strategically essentialized differences between Black sub-Saharan Africans and Moriscos, the racial shimmer in Lope's representations of slavery discloses that these categories were fundamentally entangled with, and indeed, constructed one another.
摘要:这篇文章探讨了洛佩-德-维加的《贝丽萨的旋律》(Los melindres de Belisa)这部约创作于 1608 年的城市喜剧如何表现了哈布斯堡王朝时期西班牙不同类型奴隶制的交汇。该剧与这些问题尤为相关,因为它的创作正值腓力三世颁布《从伊比利亚半岛驱逐莫里斯科人的命令》(1609 年)的激烈争论时期,当时撒哈拉以南地区的奴隶制也已在西班牙半岛根深蒂固。洛佩-德-维加的喜剧天才为探索西班牙公共戏剧中被奴役的莫里斯科人和撒哈拉以南地区人民的种族化形象如何相互交错和互为表里提供了丰富的戏剧素材。对《贝丽萨的旋律》中的种族意象和情节转折的分析表明,尽管现代早期的西班牙话语经常战略性地将撒哈拉以南非洲黑人与莫里斯科人之间的差异本质化,但洛佩在表现奴隶制时所闪烁的种族光芒揭示出,这些类别从根本上是相互纠缠的,实际上是相互建构的。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1353/boc.2022.a927745
Manuel Olmedo Gobante
Abstract:
This note on teaching explores counter-storytelling, a practice that gives voice to marginalized communities and confronts the narratives of benevolent meritocracy and color-blind power dynamics that have long shaped the hierarchies, hiring practices, and opportunities for advancement within institutions. I provide an experiential reflection on my use of counter-storytelling to teach early modern Spanish racial history and culture. First, I propose the use of counter-storytelling as a theoretical framework in early modern scholarly research. Second, I advocate for engaged editorial work that strives to rescue forgotten counter-stories from the past, especially in the field of early modern theater and performing arts. Third, I offer concrete teaching strategies that implement counter-storytelling in the classroom, where students learn to challenge common myths and majoritarian narratives about Black Spain, both past and present.
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