Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus

Ed. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini

Examines the constitution of an Amerinidan world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism. Literary critics, linguists, semioticians and historians argue that the images constructed by the Amerindians to confront the consequences of their encounter with the European cultural apparatus ensures the endurance of their own culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Construction of a Colonial Imaginary: Columbus’s Signature

René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini

1. Word and Mirror: Presages of the Encounter

   Miguel León-Portilla

2. De Bry’s Las Casas

   Tom Conley

3. (Re)discovering Aztec Images

   Eloise Quiñones Keber

4. Fantastic Tales and Chronicles of the Indies

   Manuel Alvar

5. Reading in the Margins of Columbus

   Margarita Zamora

6. To Read Is to Misread, To Write Is to Miswrite: Las Casas as Transcriber

   David Henige

7. Loving Columbus

   José Piedra

8. Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer of the Taíno People

   José Juan Arrom

9. Colonial Writing and Indigenous Discourse in Ramón Pané’s Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios

   Santiago López Maguiña

10. When Speaking Was Not Good Enough: Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, and Cannibals

    Walter D. Mignolo

11. Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma’s Empire of the Four Parts of the World

    Rolena Adorno

12. Amerindian Image and Utopian Project: Motolinía and Millenarian Discourse

    Georges Baudot

13. The Place of the Translator in the Discourses of Conquest: Hernán Cortés’s Cartas de relación and Roland Joffé’s The Mission

    David E. Johnson

14. Other-Fashioning: The Discourse of Empire and Nation in Lope de Vega’s El Nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón

    Allen Carey-Webb

15. Authoritarianism in Brazilian Colonial Discourse

    Roberto Reis

16. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; or, The Snares of (Con)(tra)di(c)tion

    Elena Feder

17. The Indian as Image and as Symbolic Structure: Bartolomé Arzán’s Historia de la Villa Imperial de Protosí

    Leonardo García Pabón

18. Images of America In Eighteenth-Century Spanish Comedy

    Benardita Llanos

19. Humboldt and the Reinvention of America

    Mary Louise Pratt

20. Atahuallpa Inca: Axial Figure in the Encounter of Two Worlds

    Marta Bermúdez-Gallegos

21. Art and Resistance in the Andean World

    Teresa Gisbert

22. Saer’s Fictional Representation of the Amerindian in the Context of Modern Historiography

    Amaryll Chanaday

23. An Image of Hispanic America from Spain of 1992

    Angel López García