La Quintrala's Confessions
The Contesting of Female Agency and Indigeneity in Two Popular Chilean Visual Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Muñoz (0000-0001-8906-178X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-172 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2014.893231 |
| OpenAlex | W2070492500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Doña Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer, known as ‘La Quintrala,’ a seventeenth-century aristocratic woman of mixed ancestry accused of torture, witchcraft, and murder, has persisted as a recurring figure in the Chilean imaginary. While literary representations of this figure have been well explored, this article contributes an examination of two visual narratives, paying particular attention to the manner in which genre and context influence the repurposing of this violent woman: the 1986 teleserie La Quintrala, produced by Chile's state-owned television station (TVN), and the Chilean newspaper Las últimas noticias's 2008 comic ‘La Quintrala y el Cristo de Mayo.’ The teleserie, a product of the Pinochet era, positions her as an antithesis to the ideal Chilean woman, simultaneously denying her agency and condemning her. The comic echoes the rhetoric of the Concertación governments as it prominently links La Quintrala's downfall and redemption to the genesis of modern Chile at the cost of her distinctive racial and gendered characteristics. Ultimately, each work employs the structure of confession to recall her crimes while rejecting the female agency and racially mixed heritage La Quintrala represents
Agency (philosophy · Antithesis · Art · Comics · Context (archaeology · Human rights · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Torture · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |