From Print to Public Performance to Relaciones de fiestas: Don Quixote in Viceregal Festivals

• Main Author: Valero Juan, Eva
• Other Authors: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura, Corrientes Estéticas en la Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Subjects: Viceregal festival; Relación de Pausa; Cervantes in Latin America; Relaciones de fiestas; Festival accounts; Masquerade; Don Quixote; Sancho Panza; Antarctic Knight; Antarctic; Cervantes; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/138444; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976893.017

This chapter examines two Latin American festivals accounts, in which prominent Cervantine figures make their first American appearances. It contends that these accounts are paradigmatic examples of transition in colonial texts in at least two ways. First, they are examples of “theoretical transitio...