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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811176103321

Autore

Martinez-Osorio Emiro

Titolo

Authority, piracy, and captivity in colonial Spanish American writing : Juan de Castellanos's elegies of illustrious men of the Indies / / Emiro Martinez-Osorio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61148-719-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

861/.3

Soggetti

Spanish American literature - To 1800 - History and criticism

Latin America In literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Editions Consulted and Translations; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1 "The Great Deeds That I Speak Of / Carry in Themselves an Intrinsic Worth and Significance"; 2 A Crisis in the Poetic Practice of Imitatio; 3 "In This Our New Sacred Sheepfold"; 4 Poetic Emulation and the Performance of Power in Canto 3 of Discurso del Capitán Francisco Draque; 5 Captivity, Authority, and Friendship in the Writings of Juan de Castellanos; Coda; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies the practice of poetic imitation and the themes of authority, piracy, and captivity in Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies. The book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Castellanos's poems and Alonso de Ercilla's the Araucana and elucidates the complex poetic discourse Castellanos created to defend the interest of the first generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors that settled in the New World in the sixteenth century.