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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press
2002.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31922442*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
