La Araucana Revisited: Rodrigo Fernandez de Ribera's La Asinaria as Critique of Aristocratic Propaganda and Imperialist Attitude

Hiergeist T (2020)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Book Volume: 36

Pages Range: 176-194

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.15581/008.36.1.176-94

Abstract

Rodrigo Fernandez de Ribera's La Asinaria has only sparsely been analyzed in the context of literary investigations, indicating a rather scant aesthetic and cultural interest. By looking at the text in relation with its intertextual reference to Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, which connects the discourse and practices of the aristocrat's autorepresentation and of Spanish colonization with the work, the following article explores the text as satire expressing a critical attitude towards aristocracy and inconsiderate colonization. It will be argued that it proves to follow a humanist perspective objecting social elites, their habits, their behaviour and their forms of autorepresentation via propagandistic genres like the epopeya.

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APA:

Hiergeist, T. (2020). La Araucana Revisited: Rodrigo Fernandez de Ribera's La Asinaria as Critique of Aristocratic Propaganda and Imperialist Attitude. RILCE-Revista De Filologia Hispanica, 36(1), 176-194. https://dx.doi.org/10.15581/008.36.1.176-94

MLA:

Hiergeist, Teresa. "La Araucana Revisited: Rodrigo Fernandez de Ribera's La Asinaria as Critique of Aristocratic Propaganda and Imperialist Attitude." RILCE-Revista De Filologia Hispanica 36.1 (2020): 176-194.

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