The epic mirror : poetry, conflict ethics and political community in colonial Peru / Imogen Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Imogen, author.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 398.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 398

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish American poetry.

Epic poetry, Spanish--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Spanish.

War in literature.

Politics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis Books, 2022.

Summary:

The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Political Community and Just War in the City of Lima

2 Republicanism, Rebellion and Empire in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana

3 The Golden Mean of Colonial Governance in Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado

4 Defence, Desire and Community in Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Other Format:

Print version: Choi, Imogen The Epic Mirror

ISBN:

1-80010-357-3

1-80010-358-1

OCLC:

1292361900