{"id":5618,"date":"2022-07-12T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=5618"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:14:18","slug":"2021-2-rojas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/volumina\/2021-2\/2021-2-rojas\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2-Rojas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"block-0c944b3e-d657-43f6-b76d-20571083df5c\"><em>Rojas F. <\/em>\u2018The Devil Made Me Do It\u2019: The Dark Side of the Carnivalesque in <em>Sendebar<\/em> (1253) [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2021. Vol. 2(9). P. 39\u201359. URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-rojas\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-rojas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3a53c32f-dbbf-4f09-8efb-32d95391299c\">DOI: 10.24412\/2587-6619-2021-2-39-59<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-f36c3769-c7d2-4a97-b403-a8a9c97ab39c\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vma_2021_2_rojas.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vma_2021_2_rojas.pdf\">&gt; Download the article<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"felipe-e-rojas\">Felipe E. Rojas<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>PhD in Romance Languages and Literature (Spanish) from the University of Chicago<br>Associate Professor of Spanish at West Liberty University (West Virginia, U.S.A.)<br><a href=\"mailto:felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu\">felipe.rojas@westliberty.edu<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/westliberty.academia.edu\/FelipeRojas\">https:\/\/westliberty.academia.edu\/FelipeRojas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-devil-made-me-do-it-the-dark-side-of-the-carnivalesque-in-sendebar-1253\"><strong><strong>\u2018The Devil Made Me Do It\u2019: The Dark Side of the Carnivalesque in <em>Sendebar<\/em> (1253)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Mikhail Bakhtin reminds us that time alters humor and generations lose context. The purpose of this article\u2019s \u2018re-reading\u2019 of <em>Sendebar <\/em>(1253), a thirteenth-century translation from Arabic to Castilian, is to unveil a form of laughter that often goes unnoticed, as audiences struggle to meaningfully contextualize how a framed-tale collection of situations and characters from the East was understood in thirteenth-century Iberia. Bakhtin considers laughter to be fundamentally philosophical, resulting in a confrontation between the truth of the world and its parts. An example of this comedic aspect can be found in <em>Sendebar<\/em>. My study posits that the devils\u2019 function in two tales primarily entertains readers, in spite of the stated purpose of the translator to instruct his audience through misogynistic storytelling. Finally, this study will close with a brief comparison of the Castilian translation and the older Arabic texts in order to contend that <em>Sendebar<\/em>\u2019s translators were conscious of the comedic impacttheir <em>diablos<\/em> (devils)had on their target audience. The devil provides an early example of what Bakhtin conceptualizes as the laughter of the grotesque, low-bodily stratum, in the overarching context of the woman\/step-mother\u2019s embodiment of a corruption to power in <em>Sendebar<\/em>.<br>Keywords: carnivalesque; devil; grotesque body; laughter; Medieval Iberia; <em>Sendebar<\/em>; translation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5589,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-5618","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53128,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5618\/revisions\/53128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}