Hercules and the King of Portugal : icons of masculinity and nation in Calderón's Spain /

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...

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Tác giả chính: Fox, Dian (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press [2019]
Loạt:New Hispanisms
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvb1hr04
Mục lục:
  • Introduction
  • Honor, gender, and (Spanish) nation
  • Part 1. Hercules. Hercules Hispanicus
  • The deaths of Hercules
  • Hercules redux : transvestism and the hombre esquivo
  • Part 2. King Sebastian. En route to King Sebastian
  • The once and future king : Sebastian and Sebastianisms
  • Staging Sebastian : the body that mattered
  • Conclusions.