El Indiano en La Dramatica De Tirso De Molina (Spanish Text)

This dissertation is primarily intended as a study of the role of the "Indiano11 charaoter in tho dramatic works of Tirso de Molina.It is ultimately intended as a contribution to the study of that oharaoter in Spanish literature.Spanish authors studied in the first part are evidence that during the Golden Age Spanish people understood as Indies a geo graphic reality opposed to "homeland, 11 including both West In dies or America, and East Indies.Ideas about this geographic reality were vague and confuse with only one well defined note: that of being a very rich land.These authors use the word indiano within a range of meanings applicable to persons and things, from the extensive one of "re lated to Indies" to the strict one of Spaniard who went to the Indies and came back to Spain.Spaniards who went to the Indies but did not come back to Spain, relatives of strict sense indianos.Creole people and Indians are considered indianos.There is a noticoable tendenoy to consider the striot sense indiano as a wealthy person and to introduce him with derogatory traits, particularly as a miser.In our second part we study this matter in the dramatic works of Tirso.His characters think of the Indies more or less as the characters of other authors do.Tirso nevertheless stresses the idea that the Indies are a privileged place and that only good things come from there.Tirso refuses to use the word indiano as meaning a Spaniard who went to Amerioa end came back to Spain, but uses it persistently as meaning Creole or Indian.Therefore we introduce as indianos some characters that Tirso does not oall that way; wo do so because they are indianos according to accepted definitions.Tirso shares the general tendency to consider Spaniards who visited Amerioa as rich people, but abstains from presenting them with derogatory traits.Far from it his indianos are treated wi h sympathy and benevolence, and some of them, as Fernando Pizarro, appear as model of human virtues.In the third part we study the meaning and value of the indlano as a character in the dramatic works and in the life of Tirso.He was an indiano in strict sense since he visited Santo Do mingo and came back to Spain.This event seems to have been a prominent one in his life and that is why the indiano an he appears in Tirso's works is endowed with authentic human qualities due to his autobiographic value.The indiano according to Tirso is a man who really recreates himself through his own works.This gives him a nobility superior to that of the blood.To have visited America is, acoording to Tirso, a real purific ation, a new creation of the individual, who come3 back to his homeland in possession of noble experiences, which raise him above the ordinary level of his countrymen.The transcendency of the indiano oharacter in the dramatic works of Tirso is centered in the fact that it represents the nobility of the deeds, superior to any other type of nobility.This character is intimately related to the rest of the work of Tirso since one of his nost cherished themes is that of the man trying to create a new life for himself fighting against injustice like the noble illegitimate ohild and the poor student.vi

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