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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457376603321

Autore

Padilla Genaro M. <1949->

Titolo

The daring flight of my pen [[electronic resource] ] : cultural politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610 / / Genaro M. Padilla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-63699-9

0-8263-4972-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Pasó por aquí series on the Nuevomexicano literary heritage

Disciplina

861/.3

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-150) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fables of la nueva México -- La Colonia: the unsettled first settlement -- Acoma: el peñol ensangrado.

Sommario/riassunto

In this engaging study Genaro Padilla enters into Villagrá's epic poem of the Oñate expedition to reveal that the soldier was no mere chronicler but that his writing offers a subtle critique of the empire whose expansion he seems to be celebrating.