This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca s Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca s account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period.In this...
This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca s Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza...
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva coronica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history....
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest ...
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala s handwritten illustrated book, "Nueva coronica y buen gobierno," from 1615 honored by UNESCO as a Memory of the World item rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in Peru. On the eve of the four-hundredth anniversary of Poma s book, a renowned group of international scholars has been assembled to focus fresh attention on the work, its author, and its times. This volume brings together a range of established and younger scholars to explore the countless avenues of inquiry that emerge from Poma s work, including Andean...
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala s handwritten illustrated book, "Nueva coronica y buen gobierno," from 1615 honored by UNESCO as a Memory of the World ite...
In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the foundations of the Latin American literary tradition are located in the writings that debated the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives. Placing the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Bartolome de las Casas in particular--within this larger polemic, she shows how their works sought credibility through reference to the narrative accounts they followed or contradicted, rather than the historical events they sought to...
In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the foundations of the Latin American literary tradition are located in t...
