Consideraciones sobre <i>Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez</i>

Leonor Taiano

doi:10.7557/13.1118

Authors

Leonor Taiano Universitetet i Tromsø, Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, Institutt for kultur og litteratur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1118

Keywords:

autobiografía, viajeros, colonial, patronazgo, aventureros

Abstract

This article attempts to provide new perspectives for approaching the study of Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez. Several researches about the text have given to Sigüenza y Góngora a character of strangeness to it, which would reduce him to the role of mere amanuensis, indicating that the discursive elaboration belongs to Ramirez. In view of that, I have performed a textual analysis, supported on the book's title and the final passage of the account, that I consider important elements that can offer a new perception on this issue. I base my research, additionally, on the study of its context of publication under the patronage of the New Spain viceroy, as well as the similarities of Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez with other contemporary texts.

Author Biography

Leonor Taiano, Universitetet i Tromsø, Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, Institutt for kultur og litteratur

Leonor Taiano (1979) Spanish Literature Research Fellow at the University of Tromsø, has a Master degree in Languages and Intercultural Studies (Europe-America, Spanish) from the University of Roma III, Italy (2008), and a Bachelor in Language and Modern Cultures from the University of Calabria, Italy (2004). She wrote a Master thesis on the subject of anti-Semitism in the picaresque novel El Buscón of Francisco de Quevedo. She also published two articles in co-authoring with José Sarzi Amade about El Laberinto de la Soledad and Perfumes de Cártago in the review Iberoamerica Global. In 2009 she taught Spanish Golden Age Literature at the Catholic University of Lille (France), She also worked at the École Nationale Privée de Commerce (France) as a teacher of Spanish and Italian.