WOMEN AND WAR IN THE COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICAN EPIC Gendered Boundaries and Erotic Conquest

Abstract

© 2022 WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on INFORMATION SCIENCE and APPLICATIONS. All rights reserved.From an iconic-textual perspective, I propose a reading of the «episodio de don Melón de la Huerta y de doña Endrina» from Libro de buen amor, in light of the concept of trompe l'oeil. In doing so, two fundamental aspects of medieval literature and the work of the Arcipreste de Hita will be addressed: the imagocentric configuration and the use of ambiguity as the result of a constructive will. I demonstrate how the deception associated with the love experience explains the identity mutation of the poetic self, which, in a game of confused tension between materiality and referentiality, will assume a new profile, of plastic nature, to the point of standing as the protagonist of a peculiar still life.