The legacy of Columbus's discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical investigation. Columbus himself continues to be a cipher like the signature he crafted for himself, a signature no one has been able to decode. What is certain, however, is that this signature symbolized the construction of a colonial imagery that is still operative and that the consequences of the violent encounter between the European and Amerindian civilizations are now being debated and reinterpreted. Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism. The essays in this volume by literary critics, linguists, semioticians, and historians argue that in the long run the images constructed by the Amerindians to confront the consequences of their encounter with European culture will ensure the endurance of their own culture, that they modified rather than renounced their own imaginary to integrate the material ramifications of their conquest and Westernization. Amerindians in effect became their own Others, and in that process came to understand and accept the substantial alternity of the Other, ultimately realizing the impossibility of absolute assimilation. --- "... offers a well-informed and academically creative reading of texts which foster the so-called colonial imaginary in relation to Spanish and Portuguese colonial enterprises in the Americas." -Guido A. Podesta University of Wisconsin-Madison .....ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rene Jara is professor of Spanish-American literature and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. Nicholas Spadaccini is professor of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

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Amerindian images and the legacy of Columbus Amerindian images and the legacy of Columbus

René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, editors

René Jara; Nicholas Spadaccini; Ren�e Jara

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Hispanic issues ;, v. 9, Hispanic issues ;, 9., Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992

Hispanic issues, Minneapolis, cop. 1992

United States, United States of America

First Edition, PS, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : The Construction Of A Colonial Imaginary : Columbus's Signature -- 1. Word And Mirror : Presages Of The Encounter -- 2. De Bry's Las Casas -- 3. (re)discovering Aztec Images -- 4. Fantastic Tales And Chronicles Of The Indies -- 5. Reading In The Margins Of Columbus -- 6. To Read Is To Misread, To Write Is To Miswrite : Las Casas As Transcriber -- 7. Loving Columbus -- 8. Fray Ramón Pané, Discoverer Of The Taíno People -- 9. Colonial Writing And Indigenous Discourse In Ramón Pané's Relación Acerca De Las Antiguedades De Los Indios -- 10. When Speaking Was Not Good Enough : Illiterates, Barbarians, Savages, And Cannibals -- 11. Colonial Reform Or Utopia? Guaman Poma's Empire Of The Four Parts Of The World -- 12. Amerindian Image And Utopian Project : Motolinía And Millenarian Discourse -- 13. The Place Of The Translator In The Discourses Of Conquest ; Hernán Cortés's Cartas De Relación And Roland Joffe's The Mission -- 14. Other-fashioning : The Discourse Of Empire And Nation In Lope De Vega's El Nuevo Mundo Descubierto Por Cristobal Colón -- 15. Authoritarianism In Brazilian Colonial Discourse -- 16. Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz; Or, The Snares Of (con)(tra)di(c)tion -- 17. The Indian As Image And As Symbolic Structure : Bartolomé Arzáns's Historia De La Villa Imperial De Potosí -- 18. Images Of America In Eighteenth-century Spanish Comedy -- 19. Humboldt And The Reinvention Of America -- 20. Atahuallpa Inca : Axial Figure In The Encounter Of Two Worlds -- 21. Art And Resistance In The Andean World -- 22. Saer's Fictional Representation Of The Amerindian In The Context Of Modern Historiography -- 23. An Image Of Hispanic America From The Spain Of 1992. René Jara And Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism.

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