"Si me buscas me hallaras:" mujer buscada, hallada y admirada en El conde Partinuples de Ana Caro

• Published in: Ehumanista (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Vol. 17; pp. 334 - 348
• Main Author: Romero, Antonio Perez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Antonio Cortijo Ocana, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 01-01-2011; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California: Department of Spanish & Portuguese
• Subjects: Caro de Mallén y Torres, Ana María; Spain
• ISSN: 1540-5877; 1540-5877

El conde Partinuples by Spanish playwright Ana Caro (?1600?-?1652?) belongs to what has been called the "Other Voice" in Western culture, a defense and dignification of women that started in the late Middle Ages and continues to the present day. The objective of this cultural stream, in its various phases, was to debunk masculinist ideologies that reinforced the subjection and subservience of women to men. In the play Caro gives women protagonism in the public sphere, and the exalted personal and social virtues, that the centuries-old patriarchy had ascribed exclusively to men. With traditional roles reversed, Caro's message is that men must look to women as exemplars of the "right" kind of public and political action and as excellent practitioners of heroic and just morality. Keywords Golden Age Theater, Feminism, Ana Caro, El conde Partinuples, Spanish Women Playwrights, Patriarchal society, Subversion, Misogyny, Emancipatory modernity, Dignification of women. El conde Partinuples de Ana Caro (?1600?-? 1652?) escritora y dramaturga barroca, es un alegato a favor de la mujer donde, por medio del arte escenico, se invierten los papeles genericos tradicionales. En la ficcion escenica, las mujeres arrebatan el poder a los hombres, se colocan en el centro social, ya sea politico, intelectivo, etico o linguistico, y declaran su ingenio y destreza, sus grandes virtudes y aptitudes. La mujer es racional, activa, resoluta, valerosa, carismatica y con grandes dotes de liderazgo. Los hombres, por el contrario, son de naturaleza apagada e irresoluta, y en constante necesidad del talento y de las habilidades femeninas, de su conducta heroica en todos los frentes, para sobreponerse a sus muchas flaquezas. Palabras clave Teatro del Siglo de Oro, feminismo, Ana Caro, El conde Partinuples, dramaturgas espanolas, sociedad patriarcal, subversion, misoginia, modernidad emancipatoria, ennoblecimiento de la mujer.