The creole invention of Peru
Subtitle: ethnic nation and epic poetry in colonial Lima
By: Jose  Antonio Mazzotti
Series: Cambria studies in Latin American literatures and cultures series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781604979589
Subjects: Spanish Epic poetry; History and criticism; Creoles in literature; In literature; Literature
Description: "More than with Lima, this book deals with a specific social formation, the criollos or Creoles, particularly the beneme ritos or descendants of conquistadors, whose study has almost always framed them as belonging to a colonial past that was supposedly erased and surpassed during the Republic. This study demonstrates that the Creoles who emerged from this situation developed strategies of survival and negotiation and many mental habits that are still present in Peru today. The first generations of Creoles created an ethnic identity that can be understood as 'national' only in the archaic and pre-Enlightenment sense of the word, without necessarily looking for independence from Spain, but with local patriotic aspirations. Thus, although this study speaks mostly about the past, it aims to explain the present and the flaws of a supposedly democratic, modern national state, still obedient to the interests of internal colonialism and the traditional Europoid ethnic prevalence in Peru. Among other merits, this book contributes to decolonial theory through the historical and cultural analysis of a dominant group"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A creole perspective : Pedro de On a between loyalty and chaos; title: El dorado, paradise, and supreme sanctity in seventeenth-century Peru : a creole agenda; title: "Limpieza de tinta" : ethnic nation and warrior community in Lima's epic poetry; title: Fernando de Valverde and Andean monsters : mystical creolism in the pilgrimage to Copacabana; title: Rodrigo de Valde s between the Empire of Peru and the Latinization of the language; title: Peralta, Inca Garcilaso, and the genesis of creolism in Lima fundada.