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pi·ca·ra  (pkä-rä)
n. pl. pi·ca·ras (-räz, -räs)
1. A woman who is a rogue or adventurer.
2. The main character in a picaresque novel when that character is a woman or girl.

[Spanish pícara, feminine of pícaro, rogue; see picaro.]


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The fourth chapter, "Textualizing the Other's Body," uses Bakhtin and others to explicate Quevedo's scatalogical Buscon as well as the equation of female picaras with prostitutes.
 
 
 
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