Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The construction of a colonial imaginary : Columbus's signature
  • 1. Word and mirror : presages of the encounter
  • 2. De Bry's las Casas
  • 3. (Re)discovering Aztec images
  • 4. Fantastic tales and chronicles of the Indies
  • 5. Reading in the margins of Columbus
  • 6. To read is to misread, to write is to miswrite : las Casas as transcriber
  • 7. Loving Columbus
  • 8. Fray Ramon Pane, discoverer of the Taino people
  • 9. Colonial writing and indigenous discourse in Ramon Pane's Relacion acerca de las antiguedades de los indios
  • 10. When speaking was not good enough : illiterates, barbarians, savages, and cannibals
  • 11. Colonial reform or utopia? Guaman Poma's empire of the four parts of the world
  • 12. Amerindian image and utopian project : motolinia and millenarian discourse
  • 13. The place of the translator in the discourses of conquest ; Hernan Cortes's Cartas de relacion and Roland Joffe's the Mission
  • 14. Other-fashioning : the discourse of empire and nation in Lope de Vega's el Nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon
  • 15. Authoritarianism in Brazilian colonial discourse
  • 16. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; or, the snares of (con)(tra)di(c)tion
  • 17. The indian as image and as symbolic structure : Bartolome Arzans's Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosi
  • 18. Images of America in eighteenth-century Spanish comedy
  • 19. Humboldt and the reinvention of America
  • 20. Atahuallpa Inca : axial figure in the encounter of two worlds
  • 21. Art and resistance in the Andean world
  • 22. Saer's fictional representation of the Amerindian in the context of modern historiography
  • 23. An image of Hispanic America from the Spain of 1992.