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Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas /
Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2014.
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| Colección: | Benjamins translation library ;
Volume 113. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Language, translation and empire; 1.1 Of empires, national rivalries and languages; 1.1.1 The Black Legend; 1.1.2 The Spanish struggle for justice; 1.2 The benevolent conquest: Different and yet similar; 1.2.1 Untranslated images of colonial violence; 1.3 The narrative of the Indian as a good savage; 1.4 The narrative of the Indians as a unified group; 1.5 The role of religion in the conquest: Different and yet similar; 1.5.1 Religious fanaticism: Similar and yet different.
- 1.6 Conquest and language1.7 The survival of anti-Spanish propaganda; 2. Conquerors and translators; 2.1 The first Europeans and the first interpreters; 2.1.1 Translation as violence; 2.1.2 Translation and resistance; 2.1.3 The many names of the linguistic intermediary; 2.2 The Requerimiento; 2.3.1 Doña Marina/Malinche and the conquest of Mexico; 2.3 Conquerors and interpreters in Mesoamerica; 2.3.2 Interpreting the meeting between Cortés and Moctezuma; 2.4 Pizarro and the conquest of Peru; 2.4.1 The encounter between Atahualpa and the Spanish; 2.4.2 Felipillo's reputation as an interpreter.
- 2.5 The salary of the interpreters2.5.1 In Mesoamerica; 2.5.2 In the Andes; 3. Translation and the administration of the colonies; 3.1 The teaching of Spanish and of the lenguas generales; 3.1.1 Alphabetic writing; 3.1.2 The teaching and learning of the lenguas generales; 3.1.3 The universities; 3.2 Translation in the early colonial period; 3.3 The status of the interpreters: Legal, economic and ethical issues; 3.4 Translators in the judicial system; 3.5 The use of native languages in official documents; 3.6 The relaciones; 3.6.1 The role of interpreter Gaspar Antonio Chi in Mesoamerica.
- 3.6.2 The visitas of the Andes3.7 The use of translation during Francisco de Toledo's rule as viceroy of Peru; 3.7.1 Francisco de Toledo's visitas; 3.7.2 Translation as violence; 3.8 Translating the khipus; 3.9 Linguistic mediation: From accommodation to resistance; 4. Evangelizing the natives; 4.1 The arrival of European conquerors: Gold as God; 4.2 The Inter Caetera bulls and the beginning of evangelization; 4.3 Language and evangelization: The challenges of translation; 4.4 The myth of the Spaniards as gods as a translation problem; 4.5 The challenges of translation and communication.
- 4.5.1 Memorization and other local practices as conversion techniques4.6 The translation policies of the Catholic Church in the metropolis and beyond; 4.6.1 Opposition to translation; 4.7 Translation and evangelization in Mesoamerica; 4.7.1 The teaching of Spanish; 4.7.2 The learning of local languages; 4.7.3 The impact of the regional councils upon language and translation policies; 4.7.4 The impact of translation upon the normativization of Nahuatl; 4.8 Translation and evangelization in the Andean region; 4.8.1 The Lima councils; 4.8.2 The standarization of native languages.