Epic, empire, and community in the Atlantic world
Subtitle: Silvestre de Balboa's Espejo de paciencia
By: Raúl Marrero-Fente.
Series: The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780838757024
Subjects: Balboa, Silvestre de; Cuban literature -- To 1800 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the epic ghost and colonial studies; title: Epic poetry and the Hispanic Atlantic; title: Silvestre de Balboa : a poet for two islands; title: Epic and archive : Espejo de paciencia and the invention of Cuban literature; title: The descent of the Hamadryads : myth and nature in Espejo de paciencia; title: Epic and empire : the poetics of community in Espejo de paciencia.