Carlota de México en la literatura de Flandes: del trauma a la locura

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Van Hecke, An
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2022
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Impossibilia ISSN 2174-2464 Nº. 23, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Canon, género y escritura: el rescate de las mujeres de la Edad de Plata española), pags. 155-177
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This paper analyzes the concept of madness in three short stories about Carlota of Mexico written in Dutch: "El Viento Caliente" (Monika Macken), "La Comédie Française" (Patrick Bernauw) and "Ik haat je, monsieur Manet" ("I hate you, monsieur Manet", Karel Verleyen). The stories were edited by Jos Pauwels in De waanzin van Charlotte (Carlota's Madness, 2000), inspired by the Castle of Bouchout, where the empress spent the last years of her life. This castle, which plays a significant role in maintaining Carlota's history alive in the Belgian collective memory, is also a place associated with her madness. At the discursive level the multilingualism of protagonist is striking, with sentences in German, French and Spanish inserted in the Dutch texts. The main research question focuses on how the authors try to untangle Carlota's madness in fictional texts where passion, mystery, intrigue and lies become intertwined.