The Armature of Conquest
Subtitle: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492-1589
By: Beatriz Pastor Bodmer ; translated by Lydia Longstreth Hunt
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 1, 1992
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780804719773
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: American history; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature and history; Historiography; Discovery And Exploration (General); Latin American Literature; Spanish American literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; History: World; South America; USA; History and criticism; Europe - Spain & Portugal; History / Spain & Portugal; America; To 1800; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Discursos narrativos de la conquista de America
Notes: The Armature of Conquest was originally published in Spanish in 1983 under the title El discurso narrativo de la conquista de America, Havana, Cuba : Coleccion Premio Casa de las Americas. The second, revised edition appeared in 1988 under the title Discursos narrativos de la conquista de America, Hanover, NH : Ediciones del Norte. - Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : The discourse of mythification.; title: Christopher Columbus and the definition of America as booty; title: Hernán Cortés and the creation of the model conqueror; title: Part two : Demythification and questioning.; title: Fom failure to demythification; title: The models in crisis; title: Part three : A literary expression of the unfolding of a new consciousness.; title: Alonso de Ercilla and the development of a Spanish American consciousness