Anne Cruz talk “Cervantes: An Accidental Feminist?”
April 7, 2017
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Feminists have long focused on the roles of women in Cervantes’s novel, Don Quixote. Most Spanish and American scholars, from the early twentieth century through feminism’s second wave, assert that Cervantes grants women agency against contemporary social norms. Yet the actions of Don Quixote’s female protagonists—Marcela, Dorotea, and Teresa Panza, among others—reveal an ambivalence that belies their purportedly liberated behavior. By historicizing the various feminisms that have analyzed Cervantes’s female protagonists, over the years, we may perceive the multiple approaches to the modern novel and the questions and contradictions that arise when considering Cervantes’s feminism.
Date posted
Jun 15, 2020
Date updated
Jun 15, 2020