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Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period book cover

1st Edition

Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period

Edited By David William Foster, Daniel Altamiranda Copyright 1998
452 Pages
by Routledge

These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the... Read more

Volume Introduction; Bartolomé de las Casas (1474?-1566); Bartolomé de Las Casas: entre el infierno y la ficción; Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1564?); Story vs. Discourse in the Chronicle of the Indies: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación; Alteridad y reconocimiento en los Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; Naufragios, de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: una retórica de la crónica colonial; Bernal Diaz del Castillo (ca. 1495-1584); Chronicle Toward Novel: Bernal Díaz' History of the Conquest of Mexico; Bernal's Strategies; Beyond Utopia and Paradise: Cortés, Bernal Díaz and the Rhetoric of Consecration; Bernal Díaz and the Women of the Conquest Inca Garcllaso de Ia Vega (1539-1616); Language and Authority in the Comentarios reales; Coloniaje y conciencia nacional: Garcilaso de la Vega Inca y Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; Garcilaso y el modelo de la nueva cultura; Alonso de Ercilla (1533-1594); América y la poesía épica áurea: la versión de Ercilla; El paisaje idealizado en La Araucana; Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700); Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: relectura criolla de los Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez; Juana lnés de Ia Cruz (1651 ?-1694); Some Obscure Points in the Life of Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: "Let Your Women Keep Silence in the Churches ... "; Engendrando el sujeto femenino del saber o las estrategias para la construcción de una conciencia epistemológica colonial en SorJuana; La estructura retórica de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea; A propósito de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: tradición poética del tema "Sueño" en España; The Burlesque Sonnets of Sor Juana lnés de la Cruz Juan del Valle y Caviedes (1652?-1697?); Juan del Valle y Caviedes: el amor médico; Alonso Carrio de Ia Vandera (1715-1778?); El Lazarillo de ciegos caminantes, una visión de la organizaci6n social en el mundo Virreinal; Josi Joaquin Fernandez de Llzardi (1776-1827); The Values of Liberalism in El Periquillo Sarniento; Acknowledgments.

Biography

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisiplinary Humanitics, and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Literatura Espanola: una Antologia, Literatura Hispanoamericana: una Antologia, and Handbook of Latin American Literature, Second Edition, all published by Garland.
Daniel Altamiranda is Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Former Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has published on literary theory, contemporary Latin American writing and Golden Age Drama.

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