Cervantes, the novel, and the new world
Wilson, Diana de ArmasAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2000.
Moving beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this study interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Moving beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies - to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators - this study interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Machine generated contents note: 1. THE AMERICANIST CERVANTES -- 1. New World 'Vassals' -- 2. Chronicles of the Indies -- 3. From Inventory to Interpretation -- 4. Imitation, Influence, Intertextuality P -- 5. 'Patience in Adversity' -- 6. Passage to the Indies -- 2. THE NOVEL ABOUT THE NOVEL -- 1. Stepfathers and Sons -- 2. 'I am the first to have novelized' -- 3. The Anglo-American Cervantes -- 4. Romance versus Novel -- 5. The Graeco-Latin Offensive -- 6. The Multiple Rises of the Novel -- 7. The Rise of the Cervantine Novel -- 3. THE NOVEL AS 'MOLETTA': CERVANTES -- AND DEFOE -- 1. Coleridgean Germs -- 2. Crusoe's Hispanicity -- 3. 'Imperial Mimesis' -- 4. Ritual Cannibalism in Cervantes -- 5. Gustatory Cannibalism in Defoe -- 6. 'Sphanished' Empires -- 4. SOME VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY: -- CACAO AND POTOSI -- 1. Hybridity, Transculturation, Heterogeneity / -- 2. Hybridity in the Graeco-Latin Novel -- 3. Importing cacao -- 4. Mining Potosi -- 5. Hybridity in Don Quixote -- 6. Hybridity in the Persiles -- 7. Hybridity as Heresy -- 5. 'SCORPION OIL': THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY -- 1. The'Enchanted' Conquistadores -- 2. The 'Quixotic' Conquistadores -- 3. Remembering the Amadis -- 4. Fear of Lying -- 5. Books and their Pathologies -- 6. Orellana and the New World Amazons -- 7. The Mimic Man -- 8. Generic Cleansing -- 6. ISLANDS IN THE MIND: UTOPOGRAPHY -- 1. Utopias, Eutopias, Dystopias, Heterotopias -- 2. Colonial Utopias -- 3. Utopianism on Trial -- 4. Englished Iberian Explorers -- 5. The Baratarian Dystopia -- 6. Islands in the Sun -- 7. 'Old and Maimed Soldiers' -- 7. JEWELS IN THE CROWN: THE COLONIAL -- WAR EPIC -- 1. Strange Encounters -- 2. 'The Chilean Aeneid' -- 3. Questions of Truth -- 4. Sans6n's Citations -- 5. Shared Topoi -- 6. Bravehearts and Barbarians -- 8. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS LOST: ETHNOHISTORY -- 1. Questions of Influence -- 2. Shared Histories -- 3. 'The Herodotus of the Incas' -- 4. 'Translating' Tahuantinsuyu -- 5. Cervantes's 'Savage Page' -- 6. 'Non sufficit orbis' -- CONCLUSION: WOMEN IN TRANSLATION: -- TRANSILA AND LA MALINCHE -- Bibliography -- Index.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Imperialism in literature
Spanish Literature
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures