Bodies, texts, and ghosts : writing on literature and law in colonial Latin America / Raúl Marrero-Fente.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marrero-Fente, Raúl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pan-Hispanism.

Latin America--Civilization--Spanish influences.

Latin America.

Civilization.

Spain--Civilization--Latin American influences.

Spain.

Physical Description:

xi, 121 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Writing on literature and law in colonial Latin America

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010]

Summary:

This book encourages adopting a transatlantic perspective, thinking across geographical borders to examine the reciprocal cultural exchange between Spain and Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This interdisciplinary approach studies how the different discursive formations of the colonial period represent racial, gender, and cultural differences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Contents:

Spectral agency : epic, loss and the work of mourning in Colonial Latin American literature

Phantom texts, scientific knowledge and cultural geogrpahy in La Conquista del Perú (1538)

Epic, haunting, and violence in Los actos y hazañas valerosas del capitán Diego Hernândez de Serpa (1564) by Pedro de la Cadena

Female agency and Araucanian ghosts : the work of mourning in La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de Ercilla

Phantom authorship, Amerindian bodies, and slavery in Nuevo mundo y conquista (1580) by Francisco de Terrazas

Aztec ghosts and the voice of death in romances and songs related to the conquest of Mexico

Spectral texts and ghost author in Historia de la Invención de las Indias (1525) by Fernán Pérez de Oliva

Literature, memory, and mourning : the trauma of conquest in La Florida (1605) by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

The afterlife of colonial legal texts : Spanish legal imperialism and the conquest of America

Human rights and academic discourse : teaching Las Casas-Sepulveda debate in the times of the Iraq War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages [111]-118) and index.

ISBN:

9780761852353

0761852352

OCLC:

644646727