Teresa De Research Articles

Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality by Michael J. McGrath

Reviewed by: Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality by Michael J. McGrath James Nemiroff McGrath, Michael J. Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality. Purdue UP, 2020. Pp. 189. ISBN 978-1-55753-899-4. During the past century, Don Quixote has been analyzed from a variety of critical approaches, whether it be from the perspective of theories of the novel, how the novel dialogues with other disciplines, such as visual art or political philosophy, or, more basically, whether Cervantes’s novel exaggerates Catholicism or is informed by it. In Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality, Michael J. McGrath tackles this third question and argues that Don Quixote is a novel inherently informed by the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy (5). McGrath’s goal in his study is “to reclaim Cervantes’[s] Catholicity from the interpretative tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel” (5). McGrath’s study is divided into six chapters. Chapters 1–2 provide historical and critical context for the literary analyses he will pursue in chapters 3–6. Chapter 1 focuses on how Cervantes’s life experiences and intellectual upbringing informed not only his spirituality but also his literary works. For example, McGrath mentions how his allegiance to the Holy League, his fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and subsequent imprisonment in Algiers exposed Cervantes to a variety of cultures and religious traditions that helped inform his early dramatic works (namely El trato de Argel). Moreover, McGrath discusses how his formal education in the works of St. Ignatius of Loyola and Santa Teresa de Avila can help critics understand both Don Quixote’s journey, insofar as the knight imitates the life of St. Ignatius, but also his literary references. Beyond simply being a satire of various genres popular during the Early Modern Period, McGrath [End Page 145] contends that Don Quixote’s readings are indeed acts of contemplative prayer, which evoke mental images or mental symbols (27). Using the conceptual vocabulary of St. Ignatius, McGrath contends that Don Quixote can be read as a manual of Cervantine spirituality that privileges Ignatian spiritual practices over Erasmian Christian Humanism. However, before exploring the different spiritual elements in Cervantes’s novel, McGrath contextualizes his study further in chapter 2 by discussing Erasmus’s impact on Jesuit spirituality, and in so doing responds to the classic Erasmian readings of Don Quixote offered by Américo Castro and Marcel Bataillon. In chapters 3–6, McGrath analyzes both parts of Don Quixote from this Catholic lens attempting to see to what degree Don Quixote mirrors Cervantes’s Catholic upbringing. In chapter 3, McGrath analyzes the novel from the perspective of moral theology, a discipline that became increasingly important in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries due to Spain’s conquest of the New World. McGrath takes as his point of departure Don Quixote’s confession at the end of Part II to probe about the nature of Don Quixote’s morality throughout both parts. The author claims that the morality of the knight’s actions can be evaluated based on the degree in which he perceives the objective and subjective morality of his actions defined as “the relationship between what a person does and the moral order, or the difference between whether an action is good or evil and whether the human being believes it to be so” (66). In order to prove the degree to which morality drives Don Quixote’s actions, McGrath considers the knight’s encounters with Andrés, his first encounter with Ginés de Pasamonte and his meeting with the galley slaves. While the first criterion focuses more on Don Quixote’s justifications for actions, McGrath concludes the chapter exploring the degree Don Quixote is moral, taking into account the consequences of his actions on other characters. In order to assess this consequence, McGrath introduces the concept of the double effect, a concept derived from Neo-Thomist philosophy popular in the period. After considering how Don Quixote’s actions are driven and determined by a Catholic morality, chapters 4–6 consider how the knight errant and his squire Sancho Panza imitate tenets of Jesuit spirituality in a variety of ways. Chapter 4 focuses on episodes...

Editorial introductions.

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology was launched in 2001. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of allergy and clinical immunology are divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS M. Teresa (Maite) de la MorenaM. Teresa (Maite) de la MorenaM. Teresa (Maite) de la Morena is Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology at University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, USA. She graduated from medical school at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. This was followed by residency and fellowships training in pediatrics, allergy and immunology, and laboratory immunology at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Dr de La Morena has a clinical interest in allergy and immunology, clinical immunology with particular focus on the primary immunodeficiency diseases. Her research interests include long term clinical outcomes of patients with X-linked Hyper IgM syndrome, DiGeorge syndrome and microRNAs in primary immunodeficiency disorders, including their role in thymic development. Stephen JollesStephen JollesDr Jolles is a Consultant Clinical Immunologist and Honorary Professor at the University Hospital of Wales, UK. He is Clinical Lead in the Immunodeficiency Centre of Wales and Co-Director of the Hub Immunology Diagnostic Laboratory of Wales. Dr Jolles trained in immunology and allergy, and obtained his PhD on Langerhans cell migration at the National Institute for Medical Research, London. He has a particular interest in the clinical use of immunoglobulin and its mechanism of action and research interests include development of new therapeutic products, new screening strategies to improve the laboratory diagnosis of primary and secondary immunodeficiency and allergy, and better ways to monitor primary immunodeficiency disease and the impact of treatments. Giovanni PassalacquaGiovanni PassalacquaProf. Giovanni Passalacqua was born in Genoa in 1964, graduated in 1990 from the Genoa University Medical School, Italy, and was appointed by the specialty degrees in Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in 1994 and 2002. He is the Co-Chairman of the Immunotherapy Scientific Committee of the WAO and member of the ARIA editorial board. Prof. Passalacqua serves as a section editor for Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and also as a reviewer for Allergy, JACI, Clin Exp Allergy and ERJ. Prof. Passalacqua is the co-author of several international position papers, including ARIA guidelines, WAO Pos pap on SLIT, EAACI Pos Pap on local immunotherapy. His main fields of research are sublingual immunotherapy, mechanisms of allergic inflammation, antihistamines, corticosteroids, respiratory allergy, hymenoptera venom allergy. Under the chairmanship of Professor Canonica, he developed and investigated sublingual immunotherapy in the last 20 years. He has had 450 full articles published in peer reviewed journals indexed in MedLine plus 15 chapters in international handbooks. He currently heads the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Department, and chairs the Specialty School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, Italy. Robert BushRobert BushDr Robert Bush received his MD degree from West Virginia University, USA. After completing his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in allergy and immunology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, he joined the faculty. He is currently Professor (Emeritus) of Medicine and was the former Chief of Allergy at the William S Middleton VA Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. His research interests include sublingual immunotherapy, allergen characterization, fungal allergy, food allergy, and occupational asthma.

Self-Fashioning and the Intersectional Self: Teresa de Cartagena by Teresa de Cartagena

Abstract This article examines the way in which Teresa de Cartagena builds and presents her literary self in her literary works, Arboleda de los enfermos and Admiración operum Dei. The examination of this literary self-fashioning (a concept based, but different from, the one coined under the same denomination by Stephen Greenblatt) of Teresa de Cartagena is conducted under the theoretical framework of intersectionality, which allows to see the multi-layered and dynamic complex nature of this author’s literary self, and the implications this has for the understanding of her work.

"JE NE SUIS PAS À BLÂMER POUR BOIRE ET VIVRE À L'AUBE"

Quando falamos de boemia, é frequente associar este mundo aos homens e dificilmente imagina-se as mulheres fazendo parte dele. Mas o mundo da boemia também era vivenciado por mulheres, especialmente as que viviam dele, como as meretrizes, as cantoras profissionais e atrizes do teatro. Dentro deste grupo também incluímos mulheres compositoras que enfrentavam preconceitos diversos para se firmarem num cenário musical ainda fechado para elas. Nosso artigo tem por objetivo analisar o mundo que permeia os sambas e sambas canção, especificamente os de composição da cantora Dora Lopes, entre 1950 e 1962, que mostrassem a relação dela com o mundo boêmio, analisando as representações do amor e relações amorosas/sexuais que as letras de suas canções apresentavam, utilizando os estudos de gênero de Teresa de Lauretis e a noção de dispositivo amoroso/sexual de Tania Navarro Swain para entender como as composições de Dora Lopes quebravam com a lógica de um modelo de relação amorosa/sexual dominante neste cenário musical.

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bábara Mujica

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain: A Tribute to Bábara Mujica

Once upon a queer theory

AbstractFocusing on Teresa de Lauretis' invention of and interventions in queer theory, this essay crafts a narrative of queer theory, both to orient the reader to some of the key ideas, questions, and themes that constitute queer theory, and to highlight disagreements about how to tell the story of queer theory's content, development, and focus.

Servando Teresa de Mier y la escritura de la historia de la revolución. Usos políticos del criollismo

En este trabajo indagamos las claves de la escritura que Servando Teresa de Mier propuso y desplegó en su obra Historia de la revolución de la Nueva España (1813) tendentes a construir una trama narrativa americana que editó documentos y perspectivas peninsulares sobre la capacidad de representación política americana. Más que defender una revolución institucional ante otra insurgente y popular, el mérito de Mier residió en proponer, inventar, un archivo americano o memoria colectiva americana que vinculó los tiempos de la conquista española con los tiempos políticos y vertiginosos inaugurados a partir de 1808 y ampliar ese discurso a fin de abarcar a todos los sectores “desprotegidos” de América.

Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra como romance de formação sentimental

A partir de la lectura de María Inés Lagos Pope (1996 y 2003) y de otros textos críticos latinoamericanos que reflexionan sobre la categoría de Bildungsroman, el artículo considera Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra una “novela de formación sentimental”, en la que, a pesar de la claudicación y obturación del amor “sentido”, la problemática del deseo se plantea en abierta e irresoluble tensión con la Institución matrimonial. Aunque el sujeto deseante, la protagonista, descubre las trampas del deseo, y hasta desiste de este, también experimenta momentos de gran potencia imaginaria, leídos como espacios abiertos al aprendizaje.

Francisco de Osuna's "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe ed. by Dana Bultman

Reviewed by: Francisco de Osuna's "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe ed. by Dana Bultman Elizabeth Rhodes Francisco de Osuna's "Norte de los estados" in Modernized Spanish: A Practical Guide to Conjugal Life in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Dana Bultman. AMSTERDAM UP / ARC HUMANITIES P, 2019. 360 PP. FRANCISCO DE OSUNA (1492?–1540) was one of several Observant Franciscans who codified their practice of recogimiento, a method of intense self-discipline and affective prayer. He is most known as the author of Tercer abecedario espiritual (1527), the book that Teresa de Ávila identified as her spiritual primer. Dana Bultman here presents another of his prescriptive texts, Norte de los estados, a guide to mid-sixteenth-century Catholic morality for secular men as defined by the male Catholic establishment that Osuna represents. The text is in the form of a dialogue between the author and the character Villaseñor, who stands "en persona de todo mancebo Cristiano" (76). Composed in Spanish, the treatise was first published in 1531 and appeared only twice again, in 1541 and 1550. Bultman attributes the book's failure to endure to its author's endorsement of relatively liberal views about marital behavior, views censored in Spain in the late 1500s. The fact that the author expresses overt support of the Franciscan nun Magdalena de la Cruz (1487–1560) in his treatise was perhaps another reason why his book met with limited publishing success, since Magdalena, who claimed to have had revelations and the stigmata, was discredited in 1546. The map of Francisco de Osuna's travels with which the book opens provides evidence of his itinerant life, which traced a triangle whose far points are Santiago de Compostela, Tripoli, and Antwerp. Opening her sixty-one-page introduction, Bultman provides a synopsis of the author's life and influence, detailing his military career, his subsequent education, and his residence in the spiritual hotbed in Escalona (Toledo) from 1526–28, where illuminists mingled with other reform-minded types such as Juan de Valdés (1509–41). Bultman follows a helpful review of other scholarly readings of the text with a detailed summary of its contents, but readers should not use that summary as an excuse to skip the text itself. In her introduction, she notes that Francisco de Osuna relied on Church fathers for many of his ideas, often [End Page 151] glossing Augustine's On the Good of Marriage and On Holy Virginity. Bultman characterizes the treatise as a reformist Catholic response to Protestantism for its emphasis on the sacramental nature of marriage and points to the author's high regard for monastic virtues such as chastity. I am less convinced than she that "Osuna's model of marriage was well outside the views that were later to become dominant in the Catholic Church" (2). His defense of women's inheritance rights and their subject status in the context of certain activities, such as their control of the household, might be considered moderately liberal. However, since Luis de León's La perfecta casada of 1583 takes a similar position on those topics, it is not clear that Osuna's ideas about marriage were later repressed, and cautious readers might not affirm their liberal slant in the first place. Although he defines the house as the wife's domain, he also states that her husband has the right to beat her behind its closed doors. More convincing is Bultman's insistence on the importance of monastic morality that clergymen such as Francisco de Osuna attempted to impose on secular Catholics, noting not only the twelve-chapter rulebook for married couples in the text, chapters that mimic those of the Franciscan rule itself, but also the text's insistence on the analogy of the married state to other sacred relationships, such as that of Christ to the Church. A two-page list of chapters precedes the edited text, making it easy to identify the embedded nondialogic sections, which, being long, anagogical lectures, make for slow reading. Those include a sermon for weddings, a rulebook for the good marriage, a sermon against adultery, a sermon...

María Morrás, Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida, and Yonsoo Kim, Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 79. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, 296 pp.

Abstract: Although there is much research on women’s writing and religious practices in the medieval and early modern periods, there are few studies on the place of exemplarity in hagiographies and secular biographies written about or by women. This book addresses this lacuna and presents eight chapters on issues of female exemplary textuality. It is divided into two sections. Part I, “Rewriting Models,” reflects the power and dangers of exemplarity that led to writing and rewriting the lives of St. Mary of Egypt, Mary Magdalene, Angela of Foligno, and Catherine of Siena. These women were saintly examples whose narratives were mostly composed by men. Part 2, “Inscribing Models,” treats the writings of Leonor de Córdoba, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel de Villena, and St. Teresa de Ávila. Life accounts by these women writers are examples of women constructing their own identity and their roles as authors. Exemplarity is thus treated in a broad sense, one that includes the secular and the sacred by analyzing texts from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries in which women are subjects and authors.

BLOWING UP THE NUCLEAR FAMILY: SHIRLEY JACKSON’S QUEER GIRLS IN POSTWAR US CULTURE

This paper intends to analyze the representation of girlhood as a liminal space in three novels by Shirley Jackson: The Bird’s Nest (1954), The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962). Bearing in mind how nuclear fears and national identity are configured around the ideal of a safe domestic space in US postwar culture, the paper explores cultural anxieties about teenage girls who refuse to conform to normative femininity, following Teresa de Lauretis’s conception of women’s coming-of-age as “consenting to femininity” (1984). I will argue that Jackson criticizes the rigid possibilities for women at this time, and I will show how her representations of deviant femininity refuse and subvert the discourse of the nuclear family and, therefore, of the nation.

"Where the Cult is in the Hands of the People": Enlightened Catholicism and Colonization on the Texas Frontier

"Where the Cult is in the Hands of the People"Enlightened Catholicism and Colonization on the Texas Frontier Brian Stauffer (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Catholic diocese map of Mexico, early nineteenth century. Courtesy of the Mapoteca "Manuel Orozco y Berra" del Servicio de Información Agroalimentaria y Pesquera. [End Page 242] In November 1828, Father Miguel Ramos Arizpe, precentor in the cathedral of Puebla, wrote to the vice president of Mexico requesting permission to colonize a strip of vacant land on the Rio Grande in the state of Coahuila y Texas. Ramos Arizpe proposed to settle two hundred families, which he hoped would be mostly Mexican nationals, "since it is my aim to encourage retired and injured soldiers and so many poor families from [Coahuila y Texas], Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to leave behind their misery while also preventing our best lands from being taken by foreigners." This was far from the first time the enlightened priest involved himself in the matter of northern colonization. Ramos Arizpe had called for the planting of colonies in the frontier provinces as Coahuila's delegate at the Cortes of Cádiz (1810–12), where the native of Saltillo served on the colonization committee; he also authored New Spain's colonization law of 1821, under auspices of which Moses Austin received his empresario contract.1 [End Page 243] Ramos Arizpe was neither the first nor last Catholic clergyman to take an interest in northern colonization. The bishop of Linares, Primo Feliciano Marín de Porras, whose diocese included Coahuila and Texas, had pitched his own colonization scheme to royal officials in 1806.2 Father José Antonio Gutiérrez de Lara, a Tamaulipas native and brother of the insurgent Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, sat on the colonization committee of Emperor Iturbide's Junta Instituyente, helping draft the Imperial Colonization Law of 1823. Later, he played a key role in designing Tamaulipas's state colonization program.3 San Antonio's parish priest, Refugio de la Garza, made his own plea for colonization of Texas as a delegate to the Constituent Congress of 1822, where he served on the colonization committee.4 In his efforts, he received vocal support from the Monterreybased Dominican insurgent, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, who served on the same committee and proved an ardent colonization booster.5 What explains the decisive influence of Catholic clergymen in the advent of the colonization programs that reshaped Mexican Texas and ultimately the U.S.–Mexico borderlands? The question becomes more significant when one considers the common historiographical charge that the Mexican Church essentially abandoned Texas to the Protestant masses that came after 1820. Indeed, in the works of historians such as William Stuart Red, David Weber, and Howard Miller, Mexican Texas appears as a spiritual wilderness—an unchurched frontier forgotten by the diocesan hierarchy and mostly aloof from the crippling debates about Catholicism and nationhood then taking place in Mexico City.6 Even Carlos [End Page 244] E. Castañeda, whose monumental, Knights of Columbus-sponsored work Our Catholic Heritage in Texas concerns itself principally with writing the Catholic Church back into the familiar Texas narrative of "civilizing" conquerors taming a "savage" land, imagines the Mexican period as a garden of Gethsemane, where the Church "agonized" before rising again (albeit in frenchified form) under the Texas and U.S. flags.7 More recent scholars of Texas, when they are not actively reproducing this image of decline, tend to minimize the role of Catholicism in shaping the region's nineteenth-century trajectory.8 In the far northeast of Mexico, these accounts argue, regional priorities of shoring up the Comanche frontier and developing a cotton economy relegated spiritual concerns to the backseat and Anglo colonization was an essentially secular business; legal provisions for Catholic exclusivity were ignored by winking Mexican alcaldes and scheming Protestant newcomers alike. When historians have paid attention to the religious ramifications of colonization in northeastern Mexico, moreover, they have tended to see the latter as roughly synonymous with Protestantization—the issuing of colonization contracts to Anglo empresarios appears as either an act of divine providence or a devil's bargain, depending...

Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness by Ben Nichols

Reviewed by: Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness by Ben Nichols Chris Coffman Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness. Ben Nichols. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $120.00 (cloth). Ben Nichols's Same Old: Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness interrogates queer theory's characteristic tendency to mount anti-normative and anti-assimilationist arguments against reductionism and the utilitarian visions it often serves. Examining the importance of sameness, normativity, and reduction within a critical paradigm that emphatically privileges difference, deviation, and complexity, Nichols convincingly demonstrates that these seemingly opposed impulses often turn back upon one another like a Möbius strip. Despite his often incisive critiques of the continued imbrication of queer theorists such as Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, and Diana Fuss in European poststructuralism, a characteristically Derridean move animates Same Old, which shuttles between difference and sameness to reclaim the latter, subordinated concept. Ably showing that sameness remains an important consideration even for those queer theorists who seek to amplify difference, Same Old ultimately succeeds in avoiding the dangers of sameness, normativity, and reduction whose disavowed importance to queer theory Nichols underscores. [End Page 799] Well-crafted and convincingly argued, Same Old moves from the fin-de-siècle and the modernist era through to the "lesbian and gay liberation movements" of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond (6). Nichols revisits sameness despite its repudiation by queer theorists who rightfully contest early twentieth-century psychoanalysis's conflation of homosexuality with narcissism. The book's chapters—defined by adjectives that either malign queers ("Useless") or are frequently maligned by them ("Reproductive," "Normative," and "Reductive")—cross-read literary with queer theoretical texts to illuminate these concepts' continued salience despite their disparagement. The first chapter, "Useless," focuses on aestheticism's anti-utilitarian ethos, returning to the late nineteenth-century work of Walter Pater (The Renaissance, 1873), Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891), and especially Henry James (Roderick Hudson, 1875; The Tragic Muse, 1890) to explore contemporary queer theorists' recent mining of potentially "useful" elements of "what has seemed useless" to straight culture (40). Nichols remarks upon this move's importance to queer thinkers such as Elizabeth Freeman, Jack Halberstam, and Heather Love, but zeroes in on Edelman's No Future (2004) for sustained dialogue that continues into chapter two. Associating James's aesthetes Roderick Hudson and Gabriel Nash with Edelman's sinthomosexual—the pleasure-seeking queer whose "embrace" of the ostensibly "useless death drive" would collapse the symbolic order and its homophobic representations—Nichols argues that "a particular kind of uselessness has been intimately linked to queer lives" since the fin-de-siècle (50, 73). By considering James's "oblique" and highly "intellectual" inflection of "the principle of art for art's sake," he registers underappreciated connections between the charges of impracticality often leveled at aesthetes and the accusations of irrelevance frequently directed at contemporary theorists (71). Chapter one might leave psychoanalytically informed readers questioning Nichols's reproduction of Edelman's assumption that the drive is completely "useless," conducing only to destroy the symbolic order without offering the possibilities for regeneration queer theorists such as Tim Dean, Teresa de Lauretis, and Mari Ruti find in it (50).1 Yet Same Old's second chapter, "Reproductive," critiques Edelman from another angle by focusing on feminist texts that undermine his characterization of "all forms of reproduction" as heteronormative (77). Drawing on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1916 Herland and late twentieth-century feminist utopian fiction by Joanna Russ, Suzy McKee Charnas, Sally Miller Gearhart, and Nicola Griffith, Nichols challenges Edelman's insistence that the ideology of "reproductive futurism"—which figures "the Child as the preeminent emblem… of every political vision as a vision of futurity"—always and only reproduces a heteronormative order that queers should reject.2 Nichols is unpersuasive in attempting to exculpate Herland from charges of racism by claiming that the book imagines a universalist "dissolution of all particular racial formations into one"; even so, Gilman's "standardised and homogenised" vision remains troubling (109). Nonetheless, this chapter's overarching argument is on point. Observing that feminist utopian texts feature "non-heterosexual—and arguably...

La recepción de Lucie Delarue-Mardrus en la Edad de Plata: tensiones en torno a autoría y feminidad

"The aim of this work is to reflect on the construction of the woman writer as a public figure based on the case of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and her projection in Spain, placing her in the framework of the tensions that surround the female condition at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although her work is translated and reviewed, it is her public figure the element that focuses the attention of the critics, as confirmed by the various references by prominent chroniclers (Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Isabel Oyarzábal, María Luz Morales or Teresa de Escoriaza). This phenomenon allows us to see the key elements of the feminine authorial construction, as the incorporation of strategies of the emerging idea of celebrity and its use as an essential mechanism to deal with the difficulty of being a woman in the public sphere"

Seeking Eccentricity

This Sociology and Technoscience monograph extends conversations and uses of eccentricity as a methodological tool for doing research within the field of feminist and gender studies. The search for eccentricity responds to the editors’ interest in reflecting on and engaging with different methodological approaches which help deviate from canonical established patterns of research onto unusual and provocative ways of doing research differently. In this collection we have gathered contributions dealing with the analysis of technologies of gender, sexuality and bodies to propose new ways to defocus, dislocate or blur the split between subjects and objects of study. In sum, with this monograph we intend to contribute to gender approaches to science by exploring "eccentrically" the ways feminist and gender scholars think and research otherwise.
 Feminist modes of knowledge and doing research have traditionally been excluded from academic discourses or denied the merits of their own specificity due to the constitution of the notion of “women” as a sexual differentiated subject. “Women”, as epistemological subject, has been trapped between the unrepresented or unrepresentable due to the articulation of what Michel Foucault calls “technologies of sex” - that is, mechanisms, apparatuses and discourses (legal, pedagogical, medical, demographic, religious or economic) that regulate sexuality. Following the Foucaultian concept, Teresa De Lauretis (1987) coins the concept of “technologies of gender” to move away from the idea of gender as sexual difference towards its comprehension as a political tool instead. Technologies are hence understood as inseparable from their sociocultural milieus and the semiotic apparatuses which produce women and men, assigning an identity and a position to each individual within the social group.

Toward the Threshold

This article presents an analysis of how the male hegemony in the “Global North” has conceptualized the witch as an image of female alterity. My approach is informed by studies by Julia Kristeva, Teresa de Lauretis, Hélène Cixous, and Barbara Creed. Drawing on these works, I explore how the witch actively desires and uses the power of her desire to draw the male subject toward the “place where meaning collapses” (Agamben 2007). The study is supported by a prior analysis of the concepts of witchcraft, perversion, and abjection. After establishing the conceptual framework, the study sample is divided into three filmic categories: the witch in society; the witch in the socialization process; and the witch as perverse resistance. My argument is that the witch, as a female figure inherently associated with sexuality, crosses the thresholds of eroticism and perversion, and possesses the power to challenge binary structures from within.

Entre patriotas y polizones: polémicas letradas sobre los americanos en la prensa periódica (1810-1812)

<p>Las propuestas de la prensa hicieron uso en los años 1810-1812 del concepto de <em>americanidad </em>como una materia maleable desde la cual señalar injusticias y arbitrariedades. Para ello, los escritos públicos recurrieron a perspectivas en las que se construyeron aliados y enemigos y se utilizó el humor satírico como vía para suscitar la afinidad del lector. La flexibilidad del nombre <em>americanos</em> se utilizó como metáfora de la debilidad de autonomía política de las distintas provincias del continente americano. Nos interesa analizar al respecto algunas producciones de Juan López Cancelada que generaron respuestas vehementes del diputado de Tlaxcala en las Cortes de Cádiz, José María Guridi Alcocer, y de Servando Teresa de Mier. Estos tres pensadores hicieron uso de la prensa periódica para concretar o plantear soluciones políticas que los debates constitucionales erraban en contemplar o profundizar y lo hicieron recurriendo a los términos de patriotas y polizones.</p>

Aprendizaje universitario en contexto de ASPO (Aislamiento Social Preventivo y Obligatorio)

This article presents a descriptive approach to the student experience of university learning in the context of ASPO (Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation) due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, a Google form was made with questions -open and closed- that was sent via email to students of all careers of the Teresa de Avila UCA Faculty, Parana Headquarters during the month of June of this year. It was answered voluntarily by 152 students from careers corresponding to the Humanities Department. It presents a general description of the students who answered the questionnaire, the resources they have for the course, the use of the virtual platform EVA (Virtual Learning Environments) and the learning experience during the ASPO. The latter was categorized according to the learning of technological, bonding, self-organization and self-management resources. In addition, the difficulties they encountered are mentioned, such as changes in routines and daily life, relationships with teachers, being a newcomer, communication mediated by technology and digital skills and finally, the support they have and the demands or needs to be able to continue with the course in a remote manner.

Los historiadores mexicanos del siglo XIX y el surgimiento de la identidad nacional mexicana

The present article is trying to find and link the work of the 19th‑century Mexican historiography with the emergence of the national identity of the society of Mexico. Contextualizing this process, the paper recalls the main events of the political scene of a newly independent and sovereign country, also involved in a whole series of international conflicts. The purpose is to find, in the works of Teresa de Mier, Bustamante, Ramírez, Icazbalceta, Paso and Troncoso, Alemán, Orozco and Berra, those contributions that had a relevant impact on the vision of the historical past related to both the independence process and the pre‑Hispanic period, that is, Mesoamerican and colonial history. These contributions are perceived mainly in the rescue of the masterpiece of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and the confrontation with the foundational narration of both the Creole culture and the indigenous culture that was formed after the conquest, i.e. the miraculous appearance of the Virgin from Guadalupe.

From the Life to the Mind of the Writer in the Literary Biopic: Andrucha Waddington’s Lope and Ray Loriga’s Teresa

Lope (Andrucha Waddington 2010) and Teresa (Ray Loriga 2007) have much in common. Both biopics center on a revered literary figure of the Spanish Golden Age. However, in spite of their many commonalities, these films embody two distinct tendencies in the contemporary literary biopic genre: one more “typical,” represented by Lope, that focuses heavily on plot development and another, represented by Teresa, that aspires to visually transpose to the screen aspects that relate to the main character’s interiority. Although Teresa has features of the “typical” contemporary literary biopic, it innovates the genre significantly by moving its focus from the life to the mind of the writer. Loriga uses the language of cinematography to depict the imagery and affective qualities of the mysticism of Teresa de Ávila—the force behind her writings—, creating a film that emphasizes image and emotions over plot. Teresa thus brings a different sensitivity to the literary biopic, which deviates from more formulaic films. Centering on the author’s mind can indeed be a new path for filmmakers to innovate the biopic genre, particularly in its literary strand. Finally, these two biopics illustrate the need to expand the scholarly conversation about the contemporary literary biopic genre, as they both engage with and deviate from the formula established by Anglo-Saxon biopics.