Casting a Literary Mammy in Diego Sánchez de Badajoz’s <i>Farsa de la hechizera</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyses the theatrical representation of an unnamed black woman in Diego Sánchez de Badajoz’s Farsa de la hechizera (1523/1540–49). In doing so, I employ the term “mammy” – and, more loosely, the Castilian word “ nodriza” – in order to capture an interdisciplinary mode of literary criticism that resituates Sánchez de Badajoz’s black woman character in Renaissance Iberian cultural and literary studies. A non-passive agent who possesses traits analogous to maternal mammy figures across the African diaspora, this study argues that Sánchez de Badajoz’s black woman personage subverts the work’s suicidal galán’s aristocratic might and ultimately destabilizes his masculinity. To that end, this article sets out to demonstrate, more broadly, that scholarly interpretations of black women in early modern Iberia have overlooked the heterogeneous and subversive ways in which these women paradoxically oscillate between the antinomies of objectification and personhood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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