Specters of conquest : Indigenous absence in transatlantic literatures /

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This book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing 'America' not as a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lifshey, Adam
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Comparative literature > Theory, etc.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Civilization
Literature
Literature > Theory, etc.
Motiv.
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft.
America > In literature.
Western Hemisphere > In literature.
America > Civilization.
Amérique > Dans la littérature.
Hémisphère occidental > Dans la littérature.
Amérique > Civilisation.
America
Western Hemisphere
Amerika.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Columbus the haunted : the diary of the first voyage and William Carlos Williams's "The discovery of the Indies"
  • Indigenous atextualizations : the Popol Vuh and I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala
  • Castaway Colonialism : Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Account
  • Apparitions of Africa : Leoncio Evita's When the combes fought and José Martí's Our America
  • Subjunctive America : Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the time of cholera.

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