Bodies, texts, and ghosts
Subtitle: writing on literature and law in colonial Latin America
By: Raúl Marrero-Fente
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780761852353; 9780761852360
Subjects: Civilization; Spanish American literature; Pan-Hispanism; Law and literature; History and criticism; Latin American influences; Spanish influences
Other titles: Writing on literature and law in colonial Latin America
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. [111]-118) and index.
Table of contents: title: Spectral agency : epic, loss and the work of mourning in Colonial Latin American literature; title: Phantom texts, scientific knowledge and cultural geography in La Conquista del Perú (1538); title: Epic, haunting, and violence in Los actos y hazañas valerosas del capitán Diego Hernândez de Serpa (1564) by Pedro de la Cadena; title: Female agency and Araucanian ghosts : the work of mourning in La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de Ercilla; title: Phantom authorship, Amerindian bodies, and slavery in Nuevo mundo y conquista (1580) by Francisco de Terrazas; title: Aztec ghosts and the voice of death in romances and songs related to the conquest of Mexico; title: Spectral texts and ghost author in Historia de la Invención de las Indias (1525) by Fernán Pérez de Oliva; title: Literature, memory, and mourning : the trauma of conquest in La Florida (1605) by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; title: The afterlife of colonial legal texts : Spanish legal imperialism and the conquest of America; title: Human rights and academic discourse : teaching Las Casas-Sepulveda debate in the times of the Iraq War.