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The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative
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- Creator
- Rolena Adorno
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xix, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781282351691, 1282351699, 0300120206, 9780300144963, 1282088718, 9781282088719, 0300144962, 9786612351693, 9786612088711, 9780300120202
- OCLC
- ocn663376555, ocn952754003, ocn123232364, ocn923594084
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-413) and index.
- Overview : the polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession -- Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, polemicist and author -- Councilors warring at the royal court -- Historians of war and princely warriors -- The encomendero and his literary interlocutors -- The conquistador-chronicler and his literary authority -- The Amerindian, studied, interpreted, and imagined -- The narrative invention of Gonzalo the Warrior -- The narrative reinvention of the conqueror-captive -- From Guancane to Macondo : literary places and their predecessors -- Seeing ghosts: the longevity of "serpents in sandals."