Zayas y Sotomayor, María de | Judith A. Whitenack (essay date 1995)
Judith A. Whitenack (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Whitenack, Judith A. “‘Lo que ha menester’: Erotic Enchantment in ‘La inocencia castigada.’” In María de Zayas: The Dynamics of Discourse, edited by Amy R. Williamsen and Judith A. Whitenack, pp. 170-91. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Whitenack offers an overview of “La inocencia castigada,” one of the tales in Zayas's Desengaños, focusing on the use of enchantment in the story.]
The unspeakable horrors of Doña Inés's six-year “castigo” [punishment] have been the focus of most commentaries on María de Zayas's “La inocencia castigada” [Innocence punished]. This tale of a neglected wife who is brutally punished for committing adultery while under a magic spell has typically been seen as a straightforward feminist complaint: at the cruelty with which men avenge slights to their honor, with no regard for...
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