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- Title
¿IMITACIÓN O SUBVERSIÓN? LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE HEROÍNAS INDÍGENAS EN LAS ELEGÍAS DE VARONES ILUSTRES DE INDIAS.
- Authors
Martínez-Osorio, Emiro F.
- Abstract
This article explores the intertextual relation between Juan de Castellanos' Elegías... and Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, arguing that every time Castellanos refers to Ercilla's text he does so with an iconoclastic impulse that leads him to either transform or reject the model. In this sense, the reference that presumably explains why Castellanos preferred the epic to historiography does not prove that he indeed "imitated" Ercilla, but rather reveals a crisis in the poetic practice of imitatio triggered by the debates surrounding the conquest and colonization of the New World.
- Subjects
ELEGIAS de varones ilustres de Indias (Poem); DE Castellanos, Juan; LA Araucana (Poem); ERCILLA y Zuniga, Alonso de, 1533-1594; SPANISH poetry; IMITATION in literature; PETRARCHISM; EPIC poetry
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2010, Vol 14, Issue 28, p34
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Literary Criticism