Thesis ID: CBB001561858

Subjectividad, enfermedad y escritura: El discurso de la enfermedad y la construcción de la identidad en la temprana edad moderna espanola (2005)

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Rivera-Cordero, Victoria (Author)


Princeton University
Brownlee, Marina S.


Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Advisor: Brownlee, Marina S.
Physical Details: 261 pp.

This dissertation explores the ways in which the self emerges and evolves at the nexus of illness and textuality in early modern Spanish writing. It begins by establishing an historical and theoretical framework through which is examined the discourse of illness in several medical texts written in Castilian between the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. While examining the ways in which discourse forges and affects our perception of the body, identity and illness, the first chapter highlights the social and political impact of the discourse of illness on the early modern imaginary. This study argues that the proliferation of medical treatises for lay readers reveals a new concept of the individual possessing the capacity to mould him or herself. The three subsequent chapters deal with texts by three authors (Juan Rodriguez del Padrn, Teresa de Cartagena and Francisco Delicado) who use illness as a shaping discourse. They constitute three distinct cases of how the self emerges through the very experience of illness, as each author writes from a subjective standpoint that contrasts sharply with the clinical eye of the physician. This dissertation explores the emergence of the self- aware subject through the marginalizing experience of love sickness and its cure in Rodriguez's _ Siervo libre de amor_. In _La arboleda de los enfermos_, Teresa of Cartagena writes both about and from a position of illness (or disability) as she explores the marginalizing experience of being deaf and female in the patriarchal society of the late Middle Ages. The fourth and final chapter concentrates on the textual materialization of illness (the ``text as body'' and the discourse of contagion) in Francisco Delicado's _ Lozana Andaluza_, in which the author explores and inhabits the body of syphilitic prostitute and an ill society. This study concludes that the struggle to deal with illness obligates these writers to grapple with fundamental questions of identity that are also directly relatable (in the case of Cartagena and Delicado) to the experience of exile and the antagonism between concepts of cultural purity and cultural hybridity.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/03 (2005): 988. UMI pub. no. 3169811.


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