| Portion of title |
Writing on literature and law in colonial Latin America |
| Contents |
Spectral agency : epic, loss and the work of mourning in Colonial Latin American literature -- Phantom texts, scientific knowledge and cultural geography in La Conquista del Perú (1538) -- Epic, haunting, and violence in Los actos y hazañas valerosas del capitán Diego Hernândez de Serpa (1564) by Pedro de la Cadena -- Female agency and Araucanian ghosts : the work of mourning in La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de Ercilla -- Phantom authorship, Amerindian bodies, and slavery in Nuevo mundo y conquista (1580) by Francisco de Terrazas -- Aztec ghosts and the voice of death in romances and songs related to the conquest of Mexico -- Spectral texts and ghost author in Historia de la Invención de las Indias (1525) by Fernán Pérez de Oliva -- Literature, memory, and mourning : the trauma of conquest in La Florida (1605) by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega -- The afterlife of colonial legal texts : Spanish legal imperialism and the conquest of America -- Human rights and academic discourse : teaching Las Casas-Sepulveda debate in the times of the Iraq War. |
| Abstract |
This book encourages adopting a transatlantic perspective, thinking across geographical borders to examine the reciprocal cultural exchange between Spain and Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The varied written formats adopted by early modern writers in Spain and the Americas are examined: epic poetry, chronicles, legal documents, lyric poetry, and historical narratives. Through a interdisciplinary approach, the author studies how the different discursive formations of the colonial period represent racial, gender and cultural differences on both sides of the Atlantic. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographic references (p. [111]-118) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780761852353 |
| ISBN | 0761852352 |
