Colmenares Publishes 2 Articles
David H. Colmenares has published two articles. The first one, for the Colonial Latin American Review, is entitled “Su herencia fue el llanto.’ Pathos, memoria y condensación temporal en los Cantares mexicanos“. The article studies the play of temporality found in Nahua songs collected in colonial Mexico. These songs, he argues, resort to “temporal condensation”— the folding of time through which people and events from distant epochs are made coetaneous in the dense aurality of the song.
The second piece, “Katherine of Aragon’s Divorce Hearing: Dramatic Historiography in Calderón’s La Cisma de Inglaterra and Shakespeare’s All is True, examines the staging of the English queen’s trial in two influential and long-running plays inspired by the life of Henry VIII. The article re-frames this crucial moment in the play within a larger tapestry of English and Spanish historiographic treatments, shedding light on the dramatic intensification that arose in successful retellings and in the interplay between historical writing and the stage.
Colmenares is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at BU Romance Studies.