Abstract

CAMPOS GARCIA, Melchor. Receptions of Don Quixote and Cervantine issues in Yucatan, 1780-1861. Secuencia [online]. 2020, n.106, e1670.  Epub Mar 02, 2020. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i106.1670.

Among the thousands of books that crossed from Spain to the Americas, Don Quixote transcended as a humorous book and an exemplary and picaresque novel, as well as in the works of various Latin American authors. From a regional perspective, this essay seeks to examine the reception of the work in a corpus of literary texts and historical discourses published in Yucatan between 1780 and 1861. It explores four lines of analysis: 1) the critical response of Pablo Moreno (1841) to the interpretation of Vicente de los Ríos (1780), 2) the resource of Don Quixote as a model for the representation of historical figures, in which reading, madness and Utopia are intertwined, 3) the work of Cervantes as a reference in the burlesque literature of Don BulleBulle (1847-1848), and 4) the change in its reception as a reading of little use for the transformation of society.

Keywords : Quixote; cervantinism; reception; history; Yucatan.