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Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World

Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World HILE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY caste paintings (cuadros de castas), primarily a Mexican phenomenon, have garnered great scholarly attention and debate, the complementary caste poetry and drama (poesía de castas), primarily from Peru (today Spanish-speaking South America), has been virtually ignored. Caste poems and caste dramas depict illicit sex, abortions, fraud, and disease among members from different caste groups (castas), mixed (mestizos, mulatos, zambos) or unmixed (españoles, indios, negros).1 In so doing, they attempt to co-opt and/or refute ideas, beliefs, and representations of inferior castes and estates that challenge hegemonic ones. They should therefore be approached as constitutive elements of the ideology of the cultural system, to borrow Angel Rama’s extrapolations from Clifford Geertz (17-18, 30; Hill, “Caste Poetry”). Juan del Valle y Caviedes, who was born in Spain in the early 1640s and moved to Peru in the late 1650s or early 1660s, was the best known author of caste poems and also the most biting satirist in the Spanish Indies during the long eighteenth century. In Peru he married and fathered five children, and died between 1698 and 1700. Several caste poems by Valle y Caviedes are included in his collection commonly known as Diente del Parnaso (Tooth from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World

HILL, RUTH
Comparative Literature , Volume 59 (4) – Jan 1, 2007
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2007 by University of Oregon
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10.1215/-59-4-269
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HILE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY caste paintings (cuadros de castas), primarily a Mexican phenomenon, have garnered great scholarly attention and debate, the complementary caste poetry and drama (poesía de castas), primarily from Peru (today Spanish-speaking South America), has been virtually ignored. Caste poems and caste dramas depict illicit sex, abortions, fraud, and disease among members from different caste groups (castas), mixed (mestizos, mulatos, zambos) or unmixed (españoles, indios, negros).1 In so doing, they attempt to co-opt and/or refute ideas, beliefs, and representations of inferior castes and estates that challenge hegemonic ones. They should therefore be approached as constitutive elements of the ideology of the cultural system, to borrow Angel Rama’s extrapolations from Clifford Geertz (17-18, 30; Hill, “Caste Poetry”). Juan del Valle y Caviedes, who was born in Spain in the early 1640s and moved to Peru in the late 1650s or early 1660s, was the best known author of caste poems and also the most biting satirist in the Spanish Indies during the long eighteenth century. In Peru he married and fathered five children, and died between 1698 and 1700. Several caste poems by Valle y Caviedes are included in his collection commonly known as Diente del Parnaso (Tooth from

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