Title: Juana of Castile : history and myth of the mad queen /
Authors: Gómez, María A., 1964-; Juan-Navarro, Santiago, 1960-; Zatlin, Phyllis, 1938-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Juana, In literature.; Spanish literature History and criticism
Abstract: Focusing on pictorial, literary, screen, and operatic representations of Juana of Castile, this is the first interdisciplinary book that incorporates both sides of the coin (history and myth; fact and fiction) that shaped the enigmatic image of this much maligned Spanish queen. Even though the fictional reinvention of Juana of Castile has been the subject of sporadic articles, this is the first time that an English-language reader has access to a book that takes an in-depth look at the panorama of literary, pictorial, musical, and cinematic recreations of this historical character. The editors' aim is to incorporate works of authors from different countries (Spain, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, France) and an entire spectrum of literary genres (narrative, poetry, theater, essay), as well as opera and the visual arts. --From publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction: Juana of Castile : from romanticism to the twenty-first century / María Asunción Gómez, Santiago Juan-Navarro, and Phyllis Zatlin -- Queen Juana : legend and history / Bethany Aram -- Juana I of Castile, Catherine of Aragon, and the failure of feminine power in the construction of empire / Elena Gascón Vera --Necrophilia, madness, and degeneration in Manuel Tamayo y Baus's La locura de amor (1855) / David R. George, Jr. -- The historical truth and aesthetic truth of Santa Juana de Castilla by Benito Pérez Galdós / José Luis Mora García -- Ramón Gómez de la Serna's superhistory : an original approach to the life of Joana of Castile / Mercedes Tasende -- Juana the Mad as a prototype of Federico García Lorca's Andalusian martyr complex / Salvatore Poeta -- Juana of Castile, reader of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam : an interpretation of Manuel Martínez Mediero's Juana del amor hermoso / Vilma Navarro-Daniels -- The spectacle of the other : madness in Falsa crónica de Juana la Loca / Becky Boling -- Is there a method to her madness? : the representation of Juana of Castile in French literature / Tara Foster -- Jeanne de Castille at center stage : the Spanish Queen in recent French theater / Phyllis Zatlin -- Madness as nationalistic spectacle : Juana and the myths of nineteenth-century historical painting / María Elena Soliño -- Juana la coloratura / Jan Reinhart -- Political madness : Juan de Orduña's Locura de amor as a national allegory / Santiago Juan-Navarro -- Woman, nation, and desire in Juan de Orduña's Locura de amor and Vicente Aranda's Juana la Loca / María Asunción Gómez -- Portraits and paintings / Pedro López Gómez.