Three picaresque-celestinesque antiheroines: the radically subjugated female bodies in <i>La hija de Celestina</i> by Debarati Byabartta

“…There is a third angle to the subjugation of women in the novel, where, due to immense misogyny and fear predominant during the Golden Age epoch, the patriarchal and authoritarian State watches the female bodies constantly in a Foucauldian panoptical style, discipline and punish them grossly, especially Elena: the femme fatal, and subsequently converts them to docile bodies.…”
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