| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 428 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession -- Fray Bartolomé de las Casas : polemicist and author -- Councilors warring at the royal court -- Historians of war and princely warriors -- The encomendero and his literary interlocutors -- The conquistador-chronicler and his literary authority -- The Amerindian : studied, interpreted, and imagined -- The narrative invention of Gonzalo the Warrior -- The narrative reinvention of the conqueror "captive" -- From Guancane to Macondo : literary places and their predecessors -- Seeing ghosts: the longevity of "serpents in sandals." |
| Summary |
"In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within this larger polemic and shows how their works sought credibility within the narrative system itself, rather than in the irretrievable historical events that lay outside it." |
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"The triumph of the narrative mode over historical content is further revealed in Adorno's demonstration of how these authors and their historical protagonists have been polemically reinvented up to the present day. Adorno traces the elaboration and persistence of colonial-era debates cast in narrative form to arrive at a new understanding of the role the "polemics of possession" plays in the history of Latin American literature and thought."--Jacket |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-413) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2007 |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Spanish American fiction -- To 1800 -- History and criticism
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Imperialism in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization
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Colonies in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature
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Spanish American fiction
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Spaans.
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Fictie.
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Polemieken.
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Bezit.
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Latin America -- Civilization -- 16th century
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Latin America -- Civilization -- 17th century
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Spain -- In literature
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Latin America
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Spain
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Latijns-Amerika.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007015551 |
| ISBN |
9780300144963 |
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0300144962 |
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9781282088719 |
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1282088718 |
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9781282351691 |
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1282351699 |
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9786612351693 |
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6612351691 |
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9786612088711 |
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6612088710 |
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