Rolena Adorno is the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her books include The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative and Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. She is a member of the presidentially appointed National Council on the Humanities and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Adorno's supurb synopsis of the field in this volume ... will be a mandatory handbook for any undergraduate or graduate survey of colonial SPanish-American literature, and an essential aid to scholars approaching the field for the first time.

• Chapter 1: First Encounters, First Doubts ; Chapter 2: Oviedo and Las Casas ; Chapter 3: The Polemics of Possession ; Chapter 4: The Conquest of Mexico ; Chapter 5: A North American Sojourn ; Chapter 6: Epic Accomplishments ; Chapter 7: Urban Baroque ; Chapter 8: Baroque Plenitude ; Chapter 9: A New Polemics of Possession ; References ; Further reading ; Index

Rolena Adorno is the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her books include The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative and Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. She is a member of the presidentially appointed National Council on the Humanities and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Adorno's supurb synopsis of the field in this volume ... will be a mandatory handbook for any undergraduate or graduate survey of colonial SPanish-American literature, and an essential aid to scholars approaching the field for the first time.

• Chapter 1: First Encounters, First Doubts ; Chapter 2: Oviedo and Las Casas ; Chapter 3: The Polemics of Possession ; Chapter 4: The Conquest of Mexico ; Chapter 5: A North American Sojourn ; Chapter 6: Epic Accomplishments ; Chapter 7: Urban Baroque ; Chapter 8: Baroque Plenitude ; Chapter 9: A New Polemics of Possession ; References ; Further reading ; Index

Rolena Adorno is the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Her books include The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative and Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru. She is a member of the presidentially appointed National Council on the Humanities and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Adorno's supurb synopsis of the field in this volume ... will be a mandatory handbook for any undergraduate or graduate survey of colonial SPanish-American literature, and an essential aid to scholars approaching the field for the first time.

• Chapter 1: First Encounters, First Doubts ; Chapter 2: Oviedo and Las Casas ; Chapter 3: The Polemics of Possession ; Chapter 4: The Conquest of Mexico ; Chapter 5: A North American Sojourn ; Chapter 6: Epic Accomplishments ; Chapter 7: Urban Baroque ; Chapter 8: Baroque Plenitude ; Chapter 9: A New Polemics of Possession ; References ; Further reading ; Index