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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154326203321

Autore

Brickhouse Anna

Titolo

The Unsettlement of America : Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-939930-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Imagining the Americas The Unsettlement of America

Disciplina

418/.02092

Soggetti

Translators

Translating and interpreting

Intercultural communication

Languages & Literatures

Philology & Linguistics

America Civilization 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This study explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who travelled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilisation before acting decisively against European settlement. The book attends specifically to the interpretive and knowledge-producing roles played by Don Luis as a translator acting not only in native-European contact zones but in a complex arena of inter-indigenous transmission of information about the hemisphere.