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Latin American novels of the Conquest : reinventing the New World /

"The fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture - significantly, those elements that are most distinct from European culture, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice - but also feel the need to distance themselves...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: López, Kimberle S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Colonial desire and the anxiety of identification in the new Latin American novel of the conquest
  • 1. Loving cannibalism: cannibalism and colonial desire in Juan José Saer's El entenado
  • 2. Violence and the sacred: idolatry and human sacrifice in Homero Aridjis's Memorias del nuevo mundo
  • 3. Eros and colonization: homosocial colonial desire in Herminio Martínez's Diario maldito de nuño de Guzmán
  • 4. Colonial desire for the Amerindian and converso other in Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante
  • 5. Ambivalence toward converso self and conquered other in Homero Aridjis's 1492 and Memorias del nuevo mundo
  • Conclusion. Deconstructing the rhetoric of conquest in the new Latin American historical novel.