Spaces and mise en abyme in Eduarda Mansilla´ s Lucía Miranda (1860): towards a deconstruction of the white captive myth

In her version of the story, Eduarda Mansilla rewrites the myth of Lucía Miranda by situating the convoluted plot in Europe, a world that is completely absent from the story narrated by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán. An analysis of this new space suggests that Europe plays a role of paramount narrative importa...

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Autor: Kruse, Elisabeth
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3933
Acceso en línea:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3933
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lucía Miranda
Eduarda Mansilla
spaces of Europe and America
mise en abyme
Argentine literature
espacios de Europa y América
literatura argentina
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Sumario:In her version of the story, Eduarda Mansilla rewrites the myth of Lucía Miranda by situating the convoluted plot in Europe, a world that is completely absent from the story narrated by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán. An analysis of this new space suggests that Europe plays a role of paramount narrative importance as the setting for multiple mises en abyme. When told from this new perspective, the action originally set in America acquires a new meaning. In Mansilla’s version, the myth of the white captive steers well away from the classic dichotomy of “civilization and barbarism”, promoting the bonds with otherness and revaluating the image of the indigenous person.