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...

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Publicado en:Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 419 - 441
Autor principal: Newman, Mary Katherine
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2026
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