TY - GEN T1 - Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain T2 - New Hispanisms A1 - Fox, Dian LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1077292213 AB - Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons-Hercules and King Sebastian-are structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical hero Hercules features prominently in Hispanic foundational fictions and became intimately associated with the Hapsburg monarchy in the early sixteenth century. King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-78), both during his lifetime and after his violent death, has been inserted into his own land's charter myth, even as competing interests have adapted his narratives to promote Spanish power. The hybrid oral and written genre of poetic Spanish theater, as purveyor and shaper of myth, was well situated to stage and resolve dilemmas relating both to lineage determined by birth and performance of masculinity, in ways that would ideally uphold hierarchy. Dian Fox's ideological analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theater and other media. Fox finds that officially sanctioned and sometimes popularly produced narratives are undercut by dynamic social and gendered processes: "Hercules" and "Sebastian" slip outside normative discourses and spaces to enact nonnormative behaviors and unreproductive masculinities. OP - 303 CN - PQ6066 .F69 2019eb SN - 9781496212153 SN - 1496212150 SN - 9781496212177 SN - 1496212177 SN - 9781496207739 SN - 1496207734 KW - Sebastião, : King of Portugal, : 1554-1578 : In literature. KW - Hercules : (Roman mythological character) : In literature. KW - Heracles : (Greek mythological character) : In literature. KW - Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, : 1600-1681 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, : 1600-1681 KW - Heracles : (Greek mythological character) KW - Hercules : (Roman mythological character) KW - Sebastião, : King of Portugal, : 1554-1578 KW - Spanish literature : Classical period, 1500-1700 : History and criticism. KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Masculinité dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : Spanish & Portuguese. KW - HISTORY : Europe : Spain & Portugal. KW - Literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Spanish literature : Classical period KW - 1500-1700 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -