Estimados celestinistas, Les paso noticia del nuevo libro publicado por Manuel da Costa Fontes (Kent State University mfontes@kent.edu) en Purdue University Press. Manuel da Costa Fontes, The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado, PSRL 30, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2005. xiv + 346pp. Paper: $44.95
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The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado Manuel da Costa Fontes
Fernando de Rojas's Celestina (1499) is perhaps the second greatest work of Spanish literature, right after Don Quixote, and Francisco Delicado sought to surpass it with La Lozana andaluza (1530), an important precursor of the picaresque novel. Both works were written during the height of the Inquisition, when the only relatively safe way for New Christian writers of Jewish extraction like Rojas and Delicado to express what they felt about the discrimination they suffered and their doubts regarding the faith that had been forced upon their ancestors was to do so in a covert, indirect manner. Some scholars have detected this subversive element in Rojas's and Delicado's corrosive view of the Christian societies in which they lived, but this book goes far beyond such suggestions, showing through abundant textual evidence that these two authors used superficial bawdiness and claims regarding the morality of their respective works as cover to encode attacks against the central dogmas of Christianity: the Annunciation, the Virgin Birth, the Incarnation, and the Holy Trinity.
This book, which will generate controversy among Hispanists, will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Spanish literature, but also to those involved in Jewish studies, medieval European history, and cultural studies.
Manuel da Costa Fontes is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kent State University. The author and editor of several books, he has published widely on the Portuguese ballad, crypto-Judaism, and medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature. His most recent book is Folklore and Literature: Studies in the Portuguese, Brazilian, Sephardic, and Hispanic Oral Traditions.
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures vol. 30. 2004. xiv, 346 pp. 1-55753-348-2 Paper $44.95.
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---------------------------------- Enrique Fernandez Associate Head Dept. of French, Spanish & Italian University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, CANADA
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