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.
Introduction
The Construction of a Colonial Imaginary: Columbus’s Signature
René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini
- Word and Mirror: Presages of the Encounter
Miguel León-Portilla - De Bry’s Las Casas
Tom Conley - (Re)discovering Aztec Images
Eloise Quiñones Keber - Fantastic Tales and Chronicles of the Indies
Manuel Alvar - Reading in the Margins of Columbus
Margarita Zamora - To Read Is to Misread, To Write Is to Miswrite: Las Casas as Transcriber
David Henige - Loving Columbus
José Piedra - Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer of the Taíno People
José Juan Arrom - Colonial Writing and Indigenous Discourse in Ramón Pané’s Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios
Santiago López Maguiña - When Speaking Was Not Good Enough: Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, and Cannibals
Walter D. Mignolo - Colonial Reform or Utopia? Guaman Poma’s Empire of the Four Parts of the World
Rolena Adorno - Amerindian Image and Utopian Project: Motolinía and Millenarian Discourse
Georges Baudot - 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 - Other-Fashioning: The Discourse of Empire and Nation in Lope de Vega’s El Nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón
Allen Carey-Webb - Authoritarianism in Brazilian Colonial Discourse
Roberto Reis - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; or, The Snares of (Con)(tra)di(c)tion
Elena Feder - The Indian as Image and as Symbolic Structure: Bartolomé Arzán’s Historia de la Villa Imperial de Protosí
Leonardo García Pabón - Images of America In Eighteenth-Century Spanish Comedy
Benardita Llanos - Humboldt and the Reinvention of America
Mary Louise Pratt - Atahuallpa Inca: Axial Figure in the Encounter of Two Worlds
Marta Bermúdez-Gallegos - Art and Resistance in the Andean World
Teresa Gisbert - Saer’s Fictional Representation of the Amerindian in the Context of Modern Historiography
Amaryll Chanaday - An Image of Hispanic America from Spain of 1992
Angel López García