Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts

Writing on Literature and Law in Colonial Latin America

AvRaúl Marrero-Fente

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts aims to promote the dialogue between Hispanic Atlantic cultures by exploring legal and literary texts from a cross-cultural perspective, while also taking into account the theoretical contributions of spectral criticism. Marrero-Fente argues that a transatlantic approach provides a broader framework to rethink the ways in which literature and law have been formulated. According to Marrero-Fente, adopting a transatlantic perspective offers a method of thinking across geographical borders, which allows readers to examine in-depth the reciprocal cultural exchange between Spain and Spanish America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the author studies how the different discursive formations of the colonial period represent racial, gender, and cultural differences on both sides of the Atlantic. This innovative approach to Hispanic studies creates new possibilities of interpretation, including the adoption of a global perspective in the field of colonial Latin American studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-09-02
Mått:154 x 233 x 8 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University Press of America
Antal sidor:136
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761852353

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Raúl Marrero-Fente is associate professor of Spanish and law at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on colonial Latin America, transatlantic studies, and human rights. He is the author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa's Espejo de Paciencia.

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This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the epic discourse produced during the colonial period in Spanish America. Marrero-Fente demonstrates its pervasive influence in the construction of colonial knowledge and in the production of culture. More importantly, he illustrates its multi-generic manifestations that are often ignored and essential to the understanding of colonial violence, human agency, and the many forms of imperialism practiced in the Spanish territories.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1. Spectral Agency: Epic, Loss and the Work of Mourning in Colonial Latin American LiteratureChapter 4 2. Phantom Texts, Scientific Knowledge, and Cultural Geography in La Conquista del Perú (1538)Chapter 5 3. Epic, Haunting, and Violence in Los actos y hazañas valerosas del capitán Diego Hernández de Serpa (1564) by Pedro de la CadenaChapter 6 4. Female Agency and Araucanian Ghosts: The Work of Mourning in La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de ErcillaChapter 7 5. Phantom Authorship, Amerindian Bodies, and Slavery in Nuevo mundo y conquista (1580) by Francisco de TerrazasChapter 8 6. Aztec Ghosts and the Voice of Death in Romances and Songs Related to the Conquest of MexicoChapter 9 7. Spectral Texts and Ghost Author in Historia de la Invención de las Indias (1525) by Fernán Pérez de OlivaChapter 10 8. Literature, Memory, and Mourning: The Trauma of Conquest in La Florida (1605) by Inca Garcilaso de la VegaChapter 11 9. Reading the Specter in the Law: Colonialism and Culture in the Royal Commentaries (1609) by Inca Garcilaso de la VegaChapter 12 10. The Afterlife of Colonial Legal Texts: Spanish Legal Imperialism and the Conquest of AmericaChapter 13 11. Human Rights and Academic Discourse: Teaching Las Casas-Sepúlveda debate in the Times of the Iraq WarChapter 14 BibliographyChapter 15 Index