Guaman poma : writing and resistance in Colonial Peru / by Rolena Adorno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adorno, Rolena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe, active 1613.

Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe.

Peru--Social life and customs.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition, with a new introduction.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2000]

Summary:

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history. She argues that Guaman Poma's work chronicles the emergence of a uniquely Latin American voice, characterized by the articulation of literary art and politics. Following the initial appearance of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, the 1990s witnessed the creation of a range of new studies that underscore the key role of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno in facilitating our understanding of the Andean and Spanish colonial pasts. At the same time, the documentary record testifying to Guaman Poma's life and work has expanded dramatically, thanks to the publication of long-known but previously inaccessible drawings and documents. In a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography in relation to the creation of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno

Introduction

1. Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest

2. Searching for a Heroic Conception

3. From Story to Sermon

4. Icons in Space: The Silent Orator

5. Mediating among Many Worlds

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed December 7, 2022).

ISBN:

0-292-75755-7