The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examines the way words about pictures in the writing of three Spanish American Creoles--Hernando Dominguez Camargo, Juan de Espinosa Medrano, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz--negotiate the challenges that confronted the American-born ruling elite in Spanish America during the contentious transitional period...
The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the med...
