New world encounters / edited by Stephen Greenblatt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- editor.

Series:

Representations books ; Volume 6.

Representations Books ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Early accounts to 1600--History and criticism.

America.

America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and innovative approach to the momentous encounter.

Contents:

Introduction: New World Encounters

Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": Announcing the Discovery

"Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

Ius et Factum: Text and Experience in the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas

Demons, Imagination, and the Incas

The Philosopher's Breviary: Jean de Léry in the Enlightenment

The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before and After Cortés

Dancing and the Sacred in the Andes: From the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Ṅiti

The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery

Ralegh's Fugitive Gold: Reference and Deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana

Voices of Resistance: The Epic Curse and Camóes's Adamastor

Elizabethan Tobacco

Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's Heterology and the New World

Travel Narratives of the French to Brazil: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520913103

0520913108

9780585081557

0585081557

OCLC:

1149412526