Areúsa: de Fernando de Rojas a Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Absztrakt

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s novel Areúsa en los conciertos is constructed around a web of intertextual hints coming from La Celestina, a classic of the Spanish literature pantheon. The present essay analyses the importance and the roles played by these intertextual games in the Mexican text. On the one hand, the Celestinian references initiate the global crisis of the eponym character, who will question her own identity and her time-space period. This problematic is developed through Angela Muñiz’s poetic of the exile. On the other hand, in order to overtake her state of crisis, the Mexican Areúsa recycles the ingredients of the medieval Areúsa—its insatiable eroticism, its social unconformity—in order to elaborate a contemporary reflection on female sexuality and on social rules which restrict it.