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Abstract
The focus of this essay is Zayas’s use of the Ave Maria, a hymn or prayer that celebrates the immaculate purity of God’s chosen vessel for the birth of Christ and then pleads with her to “pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death”. I will claim that Zayas’s arguably blasphemous use of the religious hymn, which is situated within her ironic use of the Christian theology of revelation, pulls the curtain back on a morally bankrupt aristocratic class that has bent theological thought and religious ritual toward the perpetuation and defense of sexual violence in early modern Spanish social and political institutions.
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Cet article se focalise sur l’usage que Zayas fait de l’Ave Maria, un hymne ou une prière qui célèbre la pureté immaculée du vaisseau que Dieu a choisi pour la naissance de Christ, et qui implore avec elle de « prier pour nous pauvres pécheurs, maintenant et à l’heure de notre mort ». J’avance que l’usage possiblement blasphématoire que Zayas fait de l’hymne religieux, qui se place dans le cadre de son usage ironique de la théologie de la révélation chrétienne, dénonce une classe aristocratique déchue qui a détourné la pensée théologique et le rituel religieux pour perpétuer et défendre une certaine violence sexuelle dans les institutions sociales et politiques du début de l’Espagne moderne.
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