Geographies of the myth of the Amazons in the Sergas de Esplandián: after the steps of Calafia
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/74Keywords:
Sergas de Esplandián, Calafia, virgo bellatrix, Amazons, Blasco IbáñezAbstract
This paper studies the presence of the Amazon Calafia, queen of the island of California, and her army, in the Castilian chivalric romance (libro de caballerías), Sergas de Esplandián (1521) by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The study of the Amazon heroine -precursor of the future list of Amazons that would inhabit the chivalric romances of the Sergas- is linked to the update of the character based on a reading of Montalvo’s work by Blasco Ibáñez in his novel La reina Calafia (1923). Likewise, this paper seeks to understand the spaces and geographies derived from the motif of the threatening and unknown, tracing the myth of the savage incarnated in the Amazons.
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