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Performing Women in the Middle Ages - Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (Hardcover)
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Performing Women in the Middle Ages - Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric (Hardcover)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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Unruly women constantly speak out in lyric poetry, their voices
brought to life in the bodies of female singers, dancers, and
instrumentalists. Performing Women is the first book-length study
of female performers in Galician-Portuguese and Castilian
comic-satiric poetry. Filios reconstructs medieval women's oral
performances by bringing modern ethnographic work and performance
theory to bear on literary and historical evidence. Filios explores
how women's performances (and men's impersonations of women)
contributed to the construction of the court, the marketplace, and
the countryside as cultural spaces defined by certain acts,
discourses, and conflicts. She argues that poetic portraits of
sexually aggressive courtesans, bread sellers, and mountain women
allowed elite men to portray their own sexuality as transgressive
and to adopt temporarily a female identity, enabling them to speak
and act as a degraded other. While these portraits may be
misogynistic, they also demonstrate that poets appreciated
marginalized women's characters, placing speeches overtly critical
of dominant power structures in their mouths and constructing
imaginary communities around them. Men wrote these characters,
women appropriated them, ironically performing as themselves. By
situating medieval lyric poems in their dialogic performance
context, this study demonstrates the centrality female performers
in poetic spectacles.
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