Barbara Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2478-5442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Engendering Golden Tongues
The Golden Tongues adaptation initiative, founded in 2013, pairs Los Angeles writers with comedias to produce new plays for modern audiences, inspired by the originals. I argue that reworking gender dynamics is a particularly rich dimension of the process of adaptation: as the plays take on the complexities of our modern gender system, they often bring out much that is latent in the source texts as well. The essay focuses on School for Witches, o…
Theater in Lockdown, or a Performance-Studies Paradox
This essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of scholarly research during the pandemic, focusing on the author’s experience of researching and writing Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (2021)
Dana H by Lucas Hnath, and: Is This a Room by Tina Satter
Reviewed by: Dana H by Lucas Hnath, and: Is This a Room by Tina Satter Barbara Fuchs DANA H. By Lucas Hnath. Directed by Les Waters. The Vineyard Theatre, New York City. October 27, 2021. IS THIS A ROOM. Conceived and directed by Tina Satter. The Vineyard Theatre, New York City. October 27, 2021. In a piece written early in the Trump era, Rob Weinert-Kendt argued that documentary theatre should not be constrained by its commitment to the real or …
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological armature…
La Dama Boba by Lope de Vega
Reviewed by: La Dama Boba by Lope de Vega Barbara Fuchs LA DAMA BOBA (in Spanish, no subtitles). By Lope de Vega. Adapted and directed by Leyma López. Repertorio Español, New York City. Streaming on demand from May 6, 2021. After over a year of watching theatre on Zoom, I thought I had cataloged most of its vagaries. Yet, Repertorio Español’s La dama boba (Lope de Vega’s 1613 play, variously translated as The Lady Nitwit, The Lady Simpleton, or M…
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
A Lettered Utopia: Printed Alphabets and the Material Republic of Letters
Several early editions of Thomas More's “Utopia,” first published in 1516, include the Utopian alphabet, as well as a quatrain of poetry in Utopian and its Latin transliteration. This essay traces the material conditions for the Utopian alphabet, exploring the intellectual contexts and epistemological questions that underlie its presence in these early editions and its absence in others. Reproduced by four early modern European printers via woodc…
Sweet Land by Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney
Staged Work: Intermediality and the Labor of Performance in Christiane Jatahy's Julia and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall
Through a reading of Christiane Jatahy's Julia (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall Live (Banff, 2014), this essay examines how the juxtapositions that film, and particularly live film, sets up on the stage can lead audiences to reflect on labor. The contrastive deployment of film onstage underscores the sheer labor of performance, foregrounding an estrangement at once Marxist and Brechtian. Within the context of a renewed foc…
Black Faces, White Hands: La celosa de sí misma and the Negotiation of Race
Black Faces, White Hands:La celosa de sí misma and the Negotiation of Race Barbara Fuchs Tirso de Molina's La celosa de sí misma (c. 1620–21) is in many ways a perplexing text.1 It requires all of the playwright's dazzling ingenuity to sustain a plot that depends on a woman being jealous of herself, while her suitor fails to recognize her in various guises, over the course of three action-packed jornadas. Although the title focuses on the paradox…
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxxiv + 392 pp. $120. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography. Antonio Urquízar-Herrera. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi + 272 pp. $90. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature
Fuchs, Barbara. The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, eds. and trans. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature
Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting
A Forgotten Empire: The Spanish-North African Borderlands
The year 2011 marks the 500th anniversary of a critical moment in Spanish imperial expansion. In 1511, the Catholic Monarchy completed a series of campaigns that conquered an empire in the North Af
Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities
Beyond the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama
This essay uses the lost Shakespeare play Cardenio and its eighteenth-century redaction, Double Falshood to think through the problem of Spanish sources in early modern English drama. I argue that the search for Shakespeare's hand in the texts has occluded the significance of the contemporary Spanish source, Don Quijote, and, moreover, that the field systematically overlooks the translatio from Spanish prose to English drama. I offer a reading of…
The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain
Laura R. Bass. The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009. xii+180 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–0–271–3304–4. - Volume 62 Issue 3
And the Cleaving of Hispanism
Research Article| September 01 2007 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Fuchs; 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 September …
Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La Araucana in the Old World
Research Article| May 01 2006 Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La Araucana in the Old World Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 379–395. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Fuchs; Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La A…
A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival
It is my contention that the complexities of race in the New World cannot be adequately understood without a concomitant understanding of metropolitan, European racism. This essay first traces these transatlantic connections through the racial system in the Spanish Americas and then examines their refraction in the writings of an indigenous critic of the Conquista, Guaman Poma de Ayala. Finally, it takes Poma's denunciation of hybridity as the oc…
Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early Modern Expansion
Although a large body of new work on early modern empire and nation formation has emerged in recent years, the field still lacks an effective theoretical vocabulary for this project. When discussing early modern imperialism, the temptation is to turn to postcolonial criticism, yet it clearly behooves critics working on earlier periods both to develop theoretical concepts better suited to our field, and to historicize postcolonial concepts in orde…
A Forgotten Empire: The Spanish-North African Borderlands
The year 2011 marks the 500th anniversary of a critical moment in Spanish imperial expansion. In 1511, the Catholic Monarchy completed a series of campaigns that conquered an empire in the North Af
And the Cleaving of Hispanism
Research Article| September 01 2007 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Fuchs; 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 September …
An English Picaro in New Spain: Miles Philips and the Framing of National Identity
The rich variety of recent work on Anglo-spanish connections suggests that early modern English studies may have reached a watershed point. As the potent effects of the Black Legend fade somewhat, and the study of Hispanic cultures takes on a more important role within the American academy, it has become possible to transcend early modern prejudices about Spanish culture—its supposed backwardness, fanaticism, rigidity—in order to consider the way…
Virtual Spaniards: The Moriscos and the fictions of Spanish identity
A Lettered Utopia: Printed Alphabets and the Material Republic of Letters
Several early editions of Thomas More's “Utopia,” first published in 1516, include the Utopian alphabet, as well as a quatrain of poetry in Utopian and its Latin transliteration. This essay traces the material conditions for the Utopian alphabet, exploring the intellectual contexts and epistemological questions that underlie its presence in these early editions and its absence in others. Reproduced by four early modern European printers via woodc…
Staged Work: Intermediality and the Labor of Performance in Christiane Jatahy's Julia and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall
Through a reading of Christiane Jatahy's Julia (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall Live (Banff, 2014), this essay examines how the juxtapositions that film, and particularly live film, sets up on the stage can lead audiences to reflect on labor. The contrastive deployment of film onstage underscores the sheer labor of performance, foregrounding an estrangement at once Marxist and Brechtian. Within the context of a renewed foc…
Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting
Book Review| December 01 2001 Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. By Richard Helgerson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 238 pp. Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 453–456. https://doi.org/10.1215/00…
Virtual Spaniards: The Moriscos and the fictions of Spanish identity
Virtual Spaniards: The Moriscos and the fictions of Spanish identity
An English Picaro in New Spain: Miles Philips and the Framing of National Identity
The rich variety of recent work on Anglo-spanish connections suggests that early modern English studies may have reached a watershed point. As the potent effects of the Black Legend fade somewhat, and the study of Hispanic cultures takes on a more important role within the American academy, it has become possible to transcend early modern prejudices about Spanish culture—its supposed backwardness, fanaticism, rigidity—in order to consider the way…
Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early Modern Expansion
Although a large body of new work on early modern empire and nation formation has emerged in recent years, the field still lacks an effective theoretical vocabulary for this project. When discussing early modern imperialism, the temptation is to turn to postcolonial criticism, yet it clearly behooves critics working on earlier periods both to develop theoretical concepts better suited to our field, and to historicize postcolonial concepts in orde…
A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival
It is my contention that the complexities of race in the New World cannot be adequately understood without a concomitant understanding of metropolitan, European racism. This essay first traces these transatlantic connections through the racial system in the Spanish Americas and then examines their refraction in the writings of an indigenous critic of the Conquista, Guaman Poma de Ayala. Finally, it takes Poma's denunciation of hybridity as the oc…
Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La Araucana in the Old World
Research Article| May 01 2006 Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La Araucana in the Old World Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2006) 36 (2): 379–395. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2005-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Fuchs; Traveling Epic: Translating Ercilla's La A…
And the Cleaving of Hispanism
Research Article| September 01 2007 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism Barbara Fuchs Barbara Fuchs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 493–510. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Fuchs; 1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1 September …
Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities
Beyond the Missing Cardenio: Anglo-Spanish Relations in Early Modern Drama
This essay uses the lost Shakespeare play Cardenio and its eighteenth-century redaction, Double Falshood to think through the problem of Spanish sources in early modern English drama. I argue that the search for Shakespeare's hand in the texts has occluded the significance of the contemporary Spanish source, Don Quijote, and, moreover, that the field systematically overlooks the translatio from Spanish prose to English drama. I offer a reading of…
The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain
Laura R. Bass. The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009. xii+180 pp. index. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 978–0–271–3304–4. - Volume 62 Issue 3
A Forgotten Empire: The Spanish-North African Borderlands
The year 2011 marks the 500th anniversary of a critical moment in Spanish imperial expansion. In 1511, the Catholic Monarchy completed a series of campaigns that conquered an empire in the North Af
The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature
Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting
The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature
Fuchs, Barbara. The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain
Fuchs, Barbara, Larissa Brewer-García, and Aaron J. Ilika, eds. and trans. “The Abencerraje” and “Ozmín and Daraja”: Two Sixteenth-Century Novellas from Spain. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 1, Winter 2015, pp. 5-213), on Érudit
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Black Faces, White Hands: La celosa de sí misma and the Negotiation of Race
Black Faces, White Hands:La celosa de sí misma and the Negotiation of Race Barbara Fuchs Tirso de Molina's La celosa de sí misma (c. 1620–21) is in many ways a perplexing text.1 It requires all of the playwright's dazzling ingenuity to sustain a plot that depends on a woman being jealous of herself, while her suitor fails to recognize her in various guises, over the course of three action-packed jornadas. Although the title focuses on the paradox…
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxxiv + 392 pp. $120. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography. Antonio Urquízar-Herrera. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi + 272 pp. $90. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Staged Work: Intermediality and the Labor of Performance in Christiane Jatahy's Julia and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall
Through a reading of Christiane Jatahy's Julia (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) and Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall Live (Banff, 2014), this essay examines how the juxtapositions that film, and particularly live film, sets up on the stage can lead audiences to reflect on labor. The contrastive deployment of film onstage underscores the sheer labor of performance, foregrounding an estrangement at once Marxist and Brechtian. Within the context of a renewed foc…
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550-1700
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
A Lettered Utopia: Printed Alphabets and the Material Republic of Letters
Several early editions of Thomas More's “Utopia,” first published in 1516, include the Utopian alphabet, as well as a quatrain of poetry in Utopian and its Latin transliteration. This essay traces the material conditions for the Utopian alphabet, exploring the intellectual contexts and epistemological questions that underlie its presence in these early editions and its absence in others. Reproduced by four early modern European printers via woodc…
Sweet Land by Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney
Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World
European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological armature…
La Dama Boba by Lope de Vega
Reviewed by: La Dama Boba by Lope de Vega Barbara Fuchs LA DAMA BOBA (in Spanish, no subtitles). By Lope de Vega. Adapted and directed by Leyma López. Repertorio Español, New York City. Streaming on demand from May 6, 2021. After over a year of watching theatre on Zoom, I thought I had cataloged most of its vagaries. Yet, Repertorio Español’s La dama boba (Lope de Vega’s 1613 play, variously translated as The Lady Nitwit, The Lady Simpleton, or M…
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