04627nam 2200733 a 450 991078437860332120230421044000.00-8166-8474-X(CKB)1000000000347205(EBL)310219(OCoLC)476093034(SSID)ssj0000102647(PQKBManifestationID)11127616(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102647(PQKBWorkID)10050653(PQKB)10697169(MiAaPQ)EBC310219(OCoLC)567981361(MdBmJHUP)muse38855(Au-PeEL)EBL310219(CaPaEBR)ebr10159404(CaONFJC)MIL523057(OCoLC)437188425(EXLCZ)99100000000034720519920603d1992 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAmerindian images and the legacy of Columbus[electronic resource] /René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, editorsMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19921 online resource (769 p.)Hispanic issues ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2167-5 0-8166-2166-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: The Construction of a Colonial Imaginary: Columbus's Signature; Chapter 1 Word and Mirror: Presages of the Encounter; Chapter 2 De Bry's Las Casas; Chapter 3 (Re)discovering Aztec Images; Chapter 4 Fantastic Tales and Chronicles of the Indies; Chapter 5 Reading in the Margins of Columbus; Chapter 6 To Read Is to Misread, To Write Is to Miswrite: Las Casas as Transcriber; Chapter 7 Loving Columbus; Chapter 8 Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer of the Taíno PeopleChapter 9 Colonial Writing and Indigenous Discourse in Ramón Pané's Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios Chapter 10 When Speaking Was Not Good Enough: Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, and Cannibals; Chapter 11 Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma's Empire of the Four Parts of the World; Chapter 12 Amerindian Image and Utopian Project: Motolinía and Millenarian Discourse; Chapter 13 The Place of the Translator in the Discourses of Conquest: Hernán Cortés's Cartas de relación and Roland Joffé's The MissionChapter 14 Other-Fashioning: The Discourse of Empire and Nation in Lope de Vega's El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón Chapter 15 Authoritarianism in Brazilian Colonial Discourse; Chapter 16 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; or, The Snares of (Con)(tra)di(c)tion; Chapter 17 The Indian as Image and as Symbolic Structure: Bartolomé Arzáns's Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí; Chapter 18 Images of America in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Comedy; Chapter 19 Humboldt and the Reinvention of America; Chapter 20 Atahuallpa Inca: Axial Figure in the Encounter of Two WorldsChapter 21 Art and Resistance in the Andean World Chapter 22 Saer's Fictional Representation of the Amerindian in the Context of Modern Historiography; Chapter 23 An Image of Hispanic America from the Spain of 1992; Contributors; IndexThe legacy of Columbus's discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical investigation. Columbus himself continues to be a cipher like the signature he crafted for himself, a signature no one has been able to decode. What is certain, however, is that this signature symbolized the construction of a colonial imagery that is still operative and that the consequences of the violent encounter between the European and Amerindian civilizations are now being debated and reinterpreted. Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus examines the constitutionHispanic issues ;9.IndiansHistorySourcesIndians in literatureIndiansPublic opinionPublic opinionEuropeAmericaDiscovery and explorationSpainColoniesAmericaIndiansHistoryIndians in literature.IndiansPublic opinion.Public opinion970.01/5Jara René1941-408432Spadaccini Nicholas163186MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784378603321Amerindian images and the legacy of Columbus1451870UNINA