The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative / Rolena Adorno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adorno, Rolena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--To 1800--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Latin America--Civilization--16th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Civilization--17th century.

Spain--In literature.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the foundations of the Latin American literary tradition are located in the writings that debated the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives. Placing the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Bartolomé de las Casas in particular-within this larger polemic, she shows how their works sought credibility through reference to the narrative accounts they followed or contradicted, rather than the historical events they sought to defend or condemn. Demonstrating how these authors and their protagonists have been polemically reinvented in narrative form up to the present day, Adorno elucidates the role the "polemics of possession" played in the development of Latin American literary and political discourse.

Contents:

The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession

Fray Bartolome 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."

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-413) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612351693

9786612088711

9781282351691

1282351699

9780300144963

0300144962

9781282088719

1282088718

OCLC:

952754003