El "otro" arquetipo de la prostituta y su diversificación identitaria en la Carajicomedia
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Dominicci Buzó, José
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2020
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 8, Nº. 2, 2020, pags. 561-581
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The prostitute, as literary character, was built with the aim of representing, through her behavior and psychology, the evils and calamities that afflicted Renaissance societies. The picaresque genre, for example, used characters like the prostitute to justify its didactic character, illustrating the vicissitudes of the lower classes, the immorality of the misfits and the consequences of deviant behavior. However, the prostitute shown in the Carajicomedia, a burlesque poem published in the 1519 edition of the Cancionero general, proposes a different model of the character. The archetype suggested by this poem disrupts the prostitute who, through her development with the text, celebrates sexual freedom instead of condemning it. This essay explores the representative differences between the poem and the picaresque in order to show how the sexual servant of the Carajicomedia incited the moral decriminalization of sexual pleasure, the diversification of the female character and the expansion of the liminal condition of the illicit sex