Christian Fernández - Böcker

This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a reframing of the history of native non-alphabetic cultures that undermined the colonial rhetoric of his time and the geopolitical divisions it purported. Through his research in both Andean and Renaissance archives, Inca Garcilaso sought to connect these divergent cultures into one world.This collection offers five classical studies of Royal Commentaries previously unavailable in English, along with seven new essays that cover topics including Andean memory, historiography, translation, philosophy, trauma, and ethnic identity. This cross-disciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history, culture, comparative literature, subaltern studies, and works in translation.

Sweden and Denmark have become symbols of opposing ways of 'doing integration': one soft, liberal and multicultural, the other hard, nationalist and assimilationist. Given the countries' otherwise striking similarities as small egalitarian societies with closely intertwined histories and cultures, their distinct divergence in matters of integration is perplexing. This book explains this divergence and establishes its consequences for immigrant integration. It offers close comparison of immigration history, integration models and public opinions in the two countries, and how these play out in four policy areas: citizenship, education, the labour market and housing. It provides a genuinely systematic compararison of the two countries, offering new insights and answers to some of the most disputed questions in migration studies: Why do societies react so differently to immigration? Why does integration work better in some cases than others? Is there a trade-off between multicultural policies and having social cohesion in a welfare state?

Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnational identity, interdisciplinarity, influence on modern historians and ethnographers, the Quechua language, Incan social structures, Incan myth and religion, translation, natural history, indigenous writing and culture, the picaresque, genre, and historiography.