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摘要
身体疾病可能会引导女性在精神上成长,反思她们的生活,并学习如何写下她们独特的经历。特蕾莎·德·卡塔赫纳是一位15世纪的卡斯蒂利亚作家,她不仅是一名修女,一名谈话者,一个强大的犹太家庭的成员,最重要的是,她还是一名残疾(失聪)的女文学家。她的作品Arboleda de los enfermos代表了中世纪欧洲文学、宗教和医学相互作用的混合范式。特蕾莎运用具象化的隐喻来描述她的孤立和孤独的经历,有助于重新定位读者对残疾叙事的理解。痛苦本身是一种安慰的体现,是一种减轻她痛苦的医学和宗教治疗。本文认为,为了客观地审视她的疾病和残疾,特蕾莎运用交叉知识来解释她的经历,并赋予自己和那些患有同样疾病的人力量,声称耳聋,像任何其他身体缺陷一样,不是社会或宗教的惩罚,而是一种“特权”状况。
Teresa de Cartagena’s Illness and Disability as Embodied Knowledge
Physical illness may lead women to grow spiritually, reflect on their lives, and learn how to write about their unique experiences. A fifteenth-century Castilian writer, Teresa de Cartagena distinguishes herself for being a nun, a conversa, a member of a powerful Jewish family, and most of all a disabled (deaf) woman of letters. Her work Arboleda de los enfermos represents a hybrid paradigm in which literature, religion, and medicine interact with one another in medieval Europe. Teresa’s use of embodied metaphors to describe her experience of isolation and loneliness helps reorient readers’ understanding of the disability narrative. Suffering itself serves as an embodiment of consolation and as a medical and religious treatment that relieves her suffering. This article argues that to objectively examine her illness and disability, Teresa deploys intersectional knowledge to interpret her experience, and to empower herself and those who are suffering from the same condition, asserting that deafness, like any other physical impairment, is not a social or religious punishment but rather a “privileged” condition.
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期刊介绍:
The Romanic Review is a journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures.Founded by Henry Alfred Todd in 1910, it is published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University in cooperation with the Departments of Spanish and Italian. The journal is published four times a year (January, March, May, November) and balances special thematic issues and regular unsolicited issues. It covers all periods of French, Italian and Spanish-language literature, and welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.