El nacimiento del malnacido: embarazos y partos en la novela picaresca
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Sanz Lázaro, Fernando
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Artykuł z czasopisma
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2021
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 9, Nº. 1, 2021, pags. 745-768
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Picaresque novels traditionally begin with the protagonists recounting their origin, which often includes references to their birth. This literary genre boldly portrays the daily life of Spain in its Golden Age and, being pregnancy and childbirth aspects inalienable from that experience, the picaro does not miss the opportunity to give testimony about them, whether as a protagonist, observer, or a third party referring the story. By doing this, the picaresque novel reveals the circumstances that colluded in the childbirth of the Spanish early Modern period but, most importantly, evidences the wide range of picaro typologies from a starting point as symbolically laden as the birth and challenges the determinist character of the picaresque as a genre. This article scrutinises passages from picaresque novels and related works of the Spanish Golden Age illustrative of the obstetric experience considering their social and anthropological aspects. As different ways of understanding the childbirth in the Spanish Golden Age emerge from the picaresque pages, differing conceptions of the picaro model appear in turn, some stressing predestination, the low extraction of the protagonist, or both but also others that reject birth determinism, in which social extraction and morality of the environment seem irrelevant and, thus, challenge those characteristics as distinctive features of the genre