Papers by Elizabeth Spragins
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This article considers how the violently generated corpses left in Catalina de Erauso’s wake form... more This article considers how the violently generated corpses left in Catalina de Erauso’s wake form part of a convincing performance of gender and an essential aspect of Erauso’s narrative persona. In Vida y sucesos de la monja alférez, Erauso establishes a predictable cycle of violence that inscribes Erauso within masculine military culture and strews numerous corpses by the wayside. Through the accumulated evidence of these violently created bodies, Erauso builds the foundations of the rhetorical appearance of male-coded credibility. Erauso joins other male soldiers in a social fraternity of textual credibility by demarcating violence within a gendered frame of embodied activity. These soldiers act as compurgatory witnesses that attest to Erauso’s narrative credibility. Erauso reinforces the validity of their narrative by means of certain dead bodies in order to persuade the reader of the story’s truthfulness on an emotional as well as an evidentiary basis. Resumen El artículo consi...
Journal of Arabic Literature, 2022
Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2010
Josiah Blackmore’s Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa deals with Portuguese... more Josiah Blackmore’s Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa deals with Portuguese textual constructions of African bodies from the first Portuguese incursions onto the continent in 1415 through the rounding of its southernmost tip by Vasco da Gama in 1497.
La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2017
Abstract:This article examines a narrative of the battle of al-Qaṣr al-Kabīr (August 4, 1578) giv... more Abstract:This article examines a narrative of the battle of al-Qaṣr al-Kabīr (August 4, 1578) given by Miguel Leitão de Andrade, a combatant, in his Miscellânea do Sitio de Nossa Senhora da Luz do Pedrogão Grande (1629). Throughout his narrative, the corporeality of miracles of the Virgin provides Leitão with a model for establishing narrative authority through corporeal indices left on his body by the Marian intervention. I argue that Leitão is deeply invested in questions of testimonial authority and founds his authority in his own body and the wounds it sustained in the battle. I contend that even as his body becomes a text to be read by his audiences, so it also anticipates text: by turning the corporeal account into narrative text, Leitão allows it to fulfill its predetermined function of circulating and attracting new witnesses.
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Papers by Elizabeth Spragins