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- Title: Teresa Panza's Character Zone and Discourse of Domesticity in Don Quijote.
- Author : Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 224 KB
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While Don Quijote has served as a source for an abundance of critical interpretation, there is a relative dearth of analysis with respect to Sancho's wife Teresa Panza. (1) Literary critics have seen her as a conservative and/or aggressive female figure who pales in literary comparison to the ideal Dulcinea or the women who cross paths with Don Quijote and Sancho in their journeys. One significant critical exception is Heid's study of Teresa Panza as a "non-gendered" (122) and "fully-realized" (131) subject whose discourse actively places in question gender and class constructs. In a similar vein, but using Bakhtinian theory, I focus here on both Teresa's words and her character zone, that is, the influence of her discourse and presence in the narration of Sancho's "construction" of domesticity, or the space of the home, in dialogue with Don Quijote. (2) My reading thus implies a reversal, which Heid began, with respect to former critical approaches to Teresa Panza. That is, rather than starting with the Sancho/Don Quijote dichotomy (and with it, that of Dulcinea/Aldonza), with a generalized group of women in Don Quijote, or with matrimonial constructs of abnegation, humility, or conservatism in order to work back to Teresa's image, I look at Teresa's proverbial speech in order to see how her discourse of domesticity is rewritten by Sancho in the Second Part of Don Quijote and is an influential factor in his returning home.