LEADER 05297nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910778108403321 005 20230721031748.0 010 $a0-292-79502-5 024 7 $a10.7560/717039 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479656 035 $a(OCoLC)608836622 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245663 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149348 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406167 035 $a(PQKB)10494641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443195 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2336 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245663 035 $a(DE-B1597)587727 035 $a(OCoLC)1280945260 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795020 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479656 100 $a20070521d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFerna?ndez de Oviedo's chronicle of America$b[electronic resource] $ea new history for a New World /$fKathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aTranslations of passages from Ferna?ndez de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias--Acknowledgments. 311 $a0-292-71703-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-313) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction: NEW WORLD, NEW HISTORY AND THE WRITING OF AMERICA -- $tOne. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Life and Writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés -- $tTwo. A READER?S GUIDE TO A NEW WORLD HISTORY (Proemio, bk. 1) -- $tThree. THE HISTORIAN AS ACTOR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHER Tierra Firme 1514 (bk. 29, chap. 6) -- $tFour. EYEWITNESS TO AMERICA?S WONDERS Illustrating a Natural History of the Indies (bk. 7, chap. 14) -- $tFive. AMAZON WOMEN AND NEW WORLD REALITIES Documenting an Expanding World (bk. 6, chap. 33) -- $tSix. CORTÉS AND THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO Truth and Multiple Testimonies (bk. 33, chap. 54) -- $tSeven. NATIVE AMERICANS IN OVIEDO?S HISTORY (bk. 29, chap. 26) -- $tCONCLUSIONS -- $tAPPENDIX A: Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo?s Life and Works -- $tAPPENDIX B: Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme, ca. 1540 -- $tAPPENDIX C: Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo?s Historia general y natural de las Indias -- $tAPPENDIX D: Table. Historia general y natural Manuscript Locations and Illustrations/Woodcuts -- $tAPPENDIX E: Illlustrations -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aGonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas from 1492 to 1547, along with descriptions of the land's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples. His Historia, which grew to an astounding fifty volumes, includes numerous interviews with the Spanish and indigenous leaders who were literally making history, the first extensive field drawings of America rendered by a European, reports of exotic creatures, ethnographic descriptions of indigenous groups, and detailed reports about the conquest and colonization process. Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America explores how, in writing his Historia, Oviedo created a new historiographical model that reflected the vastness of the Americas and Spain's enterprise there. Kathleen Myers uses a series of case studies?focusing on Oviedo's self-portraits, drawings of American phenomena, approaches to myth, process of revision, and depictions of Native Americans?to analyze Oviedo's narrative and rhetorical strategies and show how they relate to the politics, history, and discursive practices of his time. Accompanying the case studies are all of Oviedo's extant field drawings and a wide selection of his text in English translation. The first study to examine the entire Historia and its evolving rhetorical and historical context, this book confirms Oviedo's assertion that "the New World required a different kind of history" as it helps modern readers understand how the discovery of the Americas became a catalyst for European historiographical change. 606 $aHistorians$zAmerica$vBiography 606 $aHistorians$zSpain$vBiography 606 $aExplorers$zAmerica$vBiography 606 $aExplorers$zSpain$vBiography 607 $aAmerica$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aAmerica$xDiscovery and exploration$xHistoriography 607 $aAmerica$xDiscovery and exploration$vBiography 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aExplorers 615 0$aExplorers 676 $a970.01/6 700 $aMyers$b Kathleen Ann$01543061 701 $aScott$b Nina M$01569537 701 2$aFerna?ndez de Oviedo$b Gonzalo$f1478-1557.$0176357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778108403321 996 $aFerna?ndez de Oviedo's chronicle of America$93842490 997 $aUNINA