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The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative /
"In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works of canonical Spanis...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2007]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within this larger polemic and shows how their works sought credibility within the narrative system itself, rather than in the irretrievable historical events that lay outside it." "The triumph of the narrative mode over historical content is further revealed in Adorno's demonstration of how these authors and their historical protagonists have been polemically reinvented up to the present day. Adorno traces the elaboration and persistence of colonial-era debates cast in narrative form to arrive at a new understanding of the role the "polemics of possession" plays in the history of Latin American literature and thought."--Jacket. <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in 5.5in 5.75in 6.0in 6.25in 6.5in 6.75in; mso-layout-g |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 428 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Awards: | Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2007 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-413) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300144963 0300144962 9781282088719 1282088718 9781282351691 1282351699 9786612351693 6612351691 9786612088711 6612088710 |