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Gender Iconoclasm and Aesthetics in Esteban Echeverría’s La cautiva and the Captivity Paintings of Juan Manuel Blanes
Abstract
At the end of John Ford’s seminal Anti-Western, The Searchers (1956), a cruel Indian hunter played by John Wayne returns a young white woman he has rescued from the Comanche to a family of white settlers. In one of the most iconic scenes in U.S. film history, Wayne comes to a stop outside of the homestead, standing on the unforgiving and sun-bleached landscape, while the settlers carry the girl through a doorway into the cool, shadowy recess of their domestic realm. Although the girl has lived for many years as one of the many wives of a Comanche chief, and has surely lost her virginity to him, she is welcomed back into civilization. Wayne’s character, however, defined by savage acts that equate him with the barbarism of the Comanche, is symbolically condemned to remain outside, on the other side of the threshold symbolized by the doorway of the settler’s home (Figure 1).
Recommended Citation
Conway, Christopher, "Gender Iconoclasm and Aesthetics in Esteban Echeverría’s La cautiva and the Captivity Paintings of Juan Manuel Blanes" (2015). Decimonónica. Paper 151.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/decimononica/151
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The Sidesplitting Book Western: New • The complete version of this article may be found on the website of the journal Decimonónica. VOL. 12, NUM.1 WINTER/INVIERNO 2015 Gender Iconoclasm and Aesthetics in Esteban Echeverría’s La cautiva and the Captivity Paintings of Juan Manuel Blanes Christopher Conway Figure 1. Scene from John Ford’s The Searchers (1956). Bodies in Transit At the end of John Ford’s seminal Anti-Western, The Searchers (1956), a cruel Indian hunter played by John Wayne returns a young white woman he has rescued from the Comanche to a family of white settlers. In one of the most iconic scenes in U.S. film history, Wayne comes to a stop outside of the homestead, standing on the unforgiving and sun-bleached landscape, while the settlers carry the girl through a doorway into the cool, shadowy recess of their domestic realm. Although the girl has lived for many years as one of the many wives of a Comanche chief, and has surely lost her virginity to him, she is welcomed back into civilization. Wayne’s character, however, defined by savage acts that equate him with the barbarism of the Comanche, is symbolically condemned to remain outside, on the other side of the threshold symbolized by
Gender Iconoclasm and Aesthetics in Esteban Echeverría’s La cautiva and the Captivity Paintings of Juan Manuel Blanes