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Author Adorno, Rolena.

Title The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative [electronic resource] / Rolena Adorno.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

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Description xix, 428 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-413) and index.
Contents The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession -- Fray Bartolome de las Casas : polemicist and author -- Councilors warring at the royal court -- Historians of war and princely warriors -- The encomendero and his literary interlocutors -- The conquistador-chronicler and his literary authority -- The Amerindian : studied, interpreted, and imagined -- The narrative invention of Gonzalo the Warrior -- The narrative reinvention of the conqueror "captive" -- From Guancane to Macondo : literary places and their predecessors -- Seeing ghosts: the longevity of "serpents in sandals."
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Spanish American fiction -- To 1800 -- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Latin America -- Civilization -- 16th century.
Latin America -- Civilization -- 17th century.
Spain -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780300120202 (alk. paper)
0300120206 (alk. paper)

 
    
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