Raza, Género e Hibridez en El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes

by Mariselle Mel?ndez

Overview

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity constitute unstable elements for the colonialist agenda proposed by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807892688
Publisher:	UNC Department of Romance Studies
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures , #264
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)
Language:	Spanish