Shipwreck in the early modern Hispanic world / edited by Carrie L. Ruiz, Elena Rodríguez-Guridi ; foreword by Josiah Blackmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackmore, Josiah, 1959- writer of foreword.

Ruiz, Carrie L., editor.

Rodríguez-Guridi, Elena, editor.

Series:

Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks in literature.

Spanish literature--Social aspects--16th century.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Social aspects--17th century.

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Josiah Blackmore

Introduction / Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz

Turbulent waters : shipwreck in Zayas's "Tarde llega el desengaño" / Carrie L. Ruiz

Two small and two large imperial shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora / Julio Baena

The reader as castaway : problematics of reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora / Elena Rodríguez-Guridi

On moral truth and the controversy over the Amerindians : the Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Natalio Ohanna

The discourse of poverty in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla

Shipwreck, exile, and political critique in the Comedia de Fernán Mendez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez / Carmen Hsu

The Manila galleon shipwrecks : writing crisis and decline in the Spanish global empire / Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez

The shipwreck of the Manila galleon San Felipe in seventeenth-century histories and accounts on Japan / Noemí Martín Santo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-374-3

OCLC:

1276861444