Daniel Persia

Troubling Black Nobility: Racial Representation from Maria de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos (1647) to Fernando J. Múñez’s La cocinera de Castamar (2021)

María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s Desengaños amorosos (1647) exemplifies the enduring human fascination with sex, scandal and shock, themes prevalent in literature and popular culture across centuries. Interpretation of race within Zayas’s cultural labyrinth has, however, seemed reduc...