Zayas y Sotomayor, María de - Yvonne Jehenson and Marcia L. Welles (essay date 2000)
Yvonne Jehenson and Marcia L. Welles (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Jehenson, Yvonne, and Marcia L. Welles. “María de Zayas's Wounded Women: A Semiotics of Violence.” In Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age, edited by Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith, pp. 178-202. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2000.
[In this essay, Jehenson and Welles evaluate the Zayas's positioning of women as related to contemporary debates about women, pornography, and the sadomasochistic dynamic.]
The Desengaños amorosos (1647) [The Disenchantments of Love] are set in a period preceding “los alegres días de las carnestolendas” (118) [“the festive days of Mardi Gras” (37)].1 Situated in the period of the three carnivalesque days preceding Ash Wednesday, that is, in the “mundo al revés” [world upside-down] of disguises, crossdressing, and unexpected happenings, the Desengaños look...
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