51
That the male audience present at Grisóstomo's funeral is unable to reconcile the two conflicting versions, should not come as a surprise to us. After all, our (male) legal and political representatives, at the end of the twentieth century, are still engaged in figuring out what constitutes sexual harassment, and, in weighing the evidence of any given case, they still posit an imaginary symmetry of power between men's and women's words. (N. from the A.)
52
Munich, «Notorious Signs», p. 247. (N. from the A.)
53
This conflation of woman's body with her social discourse is, of course, at the base of much of today's legal and social regulatory fictions which govern both sexual harassment and rape cases. (N. from the A.)
54
For a discussion of the concept of negotiation, and its import to literary and cultural studies see Ann Rosalind Jones, The Currency of Eros. Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 2-3, Christine Gledhill, «Pleasurable Negotiations», Female Spectators. Looking at Films and Television, Deidre Pribram, ed. (London: Verso, 1988), and Stuart Hall, «Encoding/Decoding», Culture, Media, Language, Stuart Hall et al., eds. (London: Hutchinson, 1980); both cited by Jones. (N. from the A.)
55
«Lectura cervantina de Tres tristes tigres», Disidencias (Barcelona: Six Barral, 1977), p. 203. (N. from the A.)
56
Cervantes ou les Incertitudes du désir. Une Approche psychostructurale de l'oeuvre de Cervantes (Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1980), p. 21. (N. from the A.)
57
Combet, p. 63. (N. from the A.)
58
For an extremely illuminating and perceptive reading of the Persiles using gender as a category of analysis, see Diana de Armas Wilson, Allegories of Love. Cervantes' Persiles and Sigismunda (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1991). For a reading of El celoso extremeño which considers both gender and genre instability, see Emilia Navarro, «To Read the Bride: Silence and Elision in Cervantes' The Jealous Extremaduran», Novel: A Forum on Fiction (Spring 1989): 326-337. (N. from the A.)
59
An earlier version of this article was read at a special session, sponsored by the Cervantes Society of America, of the 107th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, in San Francisco, in December, 1991. (N. from the A.)
60
Cervantes' plays will be cited here and henceforth by act number and page number in his Teatro completo. (N. from the A.)