Cervantes, the novel, and the new world

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Diana de Armas, Author.

Series:

Oxford Hispanic studies.

Oxford Hispanic studies Cervantes, the novel, and the new world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.

Imperialism in literature.

America--In literature.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 254 p.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Oxford Hispanic studies

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moving beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this study interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. THE AMERICANIST CERVANTES

1. New World 'Vassals'

2. Chronicles of the Indies

3. From Inventory to Interpretation

4. Imitation, Influence, Intertextuality P

5. 'Patience in Adversity'

6. Passage to the Indies

2. THE NOVEL ABOUT THE NOVEL

1. Stepfathers and Sons

2. 'I am the first to have novelized'

3. The Anglo-American Cervantes

4. Romance versus Novel

5. The Graeco-Latin Offensive

6. The Multiple Rises of the Novel

7. The Rise of the Cervantine Novel

3. THE NOVEL AS 'MOLETTA': CERVANTES

AND DEFOE

1. Coleridgean Germs

2. Crusoe's Hispanicity

3. 'Imperial Mimesis'

4. Ritual Cannibalism in Cervantes

5. Gustatory Cannibalism in Defoe

6. 'Sphanished' Empires

4. SOME VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY:

CACAO AND POTOSI

1. Hybridity, Transculturation, Heterogeneity /

2. Hybridity in the Graeco-Latin Novel

3. Importing cacao

4. Mining Potosi

5. Hybridity in Don Quixote

6. Hybridity in the Persiles

7. Hybridity as Heresy

5. 'SCORPION OIL': THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY

1. The'Enchanted' Conquistadores

2. The 'Quixotic' Conquistadores

3. Remembering the Amadis

4. Fear of Lying

5. Books and their Pathologies

6. Orellana and the New World Amazons

7. The Mimic Man

8. Generic Cleansing

6. ISLANDS IN THE MIND: UTOPOGRAPHY

1. Utopias, Eutopias, Dystopias, Heterotopias

2. Colonial Utopias

3. Utopianism on Trial

4. Englished Iberian Explorers

5. The Baratarian Dystopia

6. Islands in the Sun

7. 'Old and Maimed Soldiers'

7. JEWELS IN THE CROWN: THE COLONIAL

WAR EPIC

1. Strange Encounters

2. 'The Chilean Aeneid'

3. Questions of Truth

4. Sans6n's Citations

5. Shared Topoi

6. Bravehearts and Barbarians

8. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS LOST: ETHNOHISTORY

1. Questions of Influence

2. Shared Histories

3. 'The Herodotus of the Incas'

4. 'Translating' Tahuantinsuyu

5. Cervantes's 'Savage Page'

6. 'Non sufficit orbis'

CONCLUSION: WOMEN IN TRANSLATION:

TRANSILA AND LA MALINCHE

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-76601-8

OCLC:

252648472