The Polemics Of Possession In Spanish American Narrative

In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the foundations of the Latin American literary tradition are located in the writings that debated the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives. Placing the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Bartolom de las Casas in particular--within this larger polemic, she shows how their works sought credibility through reference to the narrative accounts they followed or contradicted, rather than the historical events they sought to defend or condemn. Demonstrating how these authors and their protagonists have been polemically reinvented in narrative form up to the present day, Adorno elucidates the role the "polemics of possession" played in the development of Latin American literary and political discourse. 9780300214765 0300214766 0 BOOK Colonies in literature NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G_DHrQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Rolena Adorno
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0300214766
• | ISBN-13: 9780300214765