Tuerto Masculinity and Feminine Foresight: Gender and Sight in Ercilla's La Araucana.
This article examines how Alonso de Ercilla's epic poem La Araucana (1569–1590) presents gender through the motif of sight. It argues that Ercilla develops what could be termed tuerto masculinity : a heroic blindness in which male warriors' ocular injuries expose their limited understanding of the A...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 419 - 441 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2026
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