How Don Quijote travelled to the Americas. Metamorphosis of the Spanish national hero in texts by Rubén Darío, Carlos Fuentes and Kathy Acker
[EN]Only a few fictional heroes symbolize a supposed national character in the way Cervantes’ Don Quijote does in the case of Spain. His adaptation to the ethnic, historical and cultural contexts of the Americas is discussed in this paper, focusing especially on the mechanisms of transtextualization...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repositorio: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/133494 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/133494 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Don Quijote Héroe nacional Transtextualidad Americanidad Locura Utopía National hero Transtextuality Americanness Insanity Utopia |
| Sumario: | [EN]Only a few fictional heroes symbolize a supposed national character in the way Cervantes’ Don Quijote does in the case of Spain. His adaptation to the ethnic, historical and cultural contexts of the Americas is discussed in this paper, focusing especially on the mechanisms of transtextualization in the short story D. Q. by Rubén Darío (1899), in Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes (1975), and in Kathy Acker’s «post-feminist» novel Don Quixote which was a dream from 1986. These three texts demonstrate that due to the elasticity of the mythologeme Don Quijote, this fictive figure is to function under different ideological and cultural circumstances. It is remarkable that all of the texts go beyond the 19th century version of Don Quijote, liberating the figure from all the false romantic chivalry and exposing the humanistic ideas of Cervantes’ novel which had been left behind following the enlightenment. |
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