Rhetorical conquests
Subtitle: Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance imperialism
By: Glen Carman.
Series: Purdue studies in Romance literatures ;; v. 35
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781557534033
Subjects: Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.; López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564.; Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 -- Literary art.; Language and history -- Mexico.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.; Mexico -- Historiography.
Description: "This study examines how Hernan Cortes, first as the author of his Cartas de relacion (1519-1526), and then as the protagonist of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's Historia de la conquista de Mexico (1552), defends Spain's conquest of Mexico. It analyzes how these accounts represent his speech acts, including some of his key speeches: how they allow him to decline the conquest in different ways to different audiences and how they represent him as controlling the speech acts of others, most notably those of Moctezuma."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief account of events; title: Accounting for the account; title: Rhetoric and Renaissance historiography; title: Cortés and Machiavelli; title: Cortés's written authority : fabricating truth; title: Conquering and convincing; title: Competing accounts (1521-1552); title: History as biography : theory and practice in Gómara; title: Gómara's protean hero; title: Voice and irony; title: Trusting the translator; title: Gómara's Cortés defines himself; title: Quelling a mutiny in Tlaxcala; title: From idols to icons; title: Renaissance ventriloquism; title: Rendering Moctezuma harmless in Cortés's Segunda relación; title: Gómara and the humanist revisions of surrender.