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While most scholars and students of Renaissance literature have at least a passing familiarity with the women warriors of the Orlando furioso, Gerusalemme liberata, and The Faerie Oueene, very few, including those who study Spanish literature, know of the women warriors that appear in one of the most influential literary works of the sixteenth century, the Amadis Cycle. Nevertheless, these woman warriors play a significant role throughout the later part of the Amadis Cycle, contributing to the development of those themes concerning religion, racial difference, gender, and honor. The woman warrior first appears as Calafia, the Amazon queen of California, in Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo's sequel to Amadis de Gaula. the Sergas de Esplandián (1510). Feliciano de Silva, the most prolific writer of the Amadis continuations, introduced a new woman warrior in almost every one of his sequels. Although Pintiquinestra (Lisuarte de Grecia [1514]) and Xarandria (Florisel de Niguea Part IV [1551]) play relatively minor roles in their respective narratives, Zahara (Amadis de Grecia [1530]) and her daughter Alastraxerea (Florisel de Niguea Parts I and II [1532]) are major characters whose exploits

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Author

Alison Dale Taufer

Publisher

University of California

Published

1988

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction