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Books by Rolena Adorno






The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative(Reprint)
by Rolena Adorno
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2014 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21476-5, ISBN: 0-300-21476-6

"This book illuminates colonial Latin American literary studies in an entirely new way. Rolena Adorno argues that the incandescent nucleus of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights of Spanish dominion in the Americas were debated. She investigates the works of Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, shows how the narrative web they created had the capacity t ..."






Colonial Latin American Literature(1st Edition)
A Very Short Introduction
by Rolena Adorno, Yale University
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-975502-8, ISBN: 0-19-975502-7

"A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the writings that debated the justice of th ..."






The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca(3rd Edition)
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6416-8, ISBN: 0-8032-6416-X

"This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the ..."






Guaman Poma(Updated)
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition (ILAS Special Publication)
by Rolena Adorno
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70503-6, ISBN: 0-292-70503-4

"In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and c ..."






The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
by Rolena Adorno, Robert K. Faulkner
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12020-2, ISBN: 0-300-12020-6

"In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works of canonical Spanish and Amerindian writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within this larger polemic and shows how their works sought credibility within ..."






Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (Latin American Monograph Series #68))
by Rolena Adorno
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72741-0, ISBN: 0-292-72741-0

"In a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography ..."






Guaman Poma(1st Edition)
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (Latin American Monographs / Institute of Latin American Studies, No. 86)
by Rolena Adorno
Hardcover, 189 Pages, Published 1986 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72452-5, ISBN: 0-292-72452-7






The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca(Illustrated)
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1528-3, ISBN: 0-8032-1528-2

"This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the ..."






Transatlantic Encounters
Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century
by Kenneth J. Andrien, Rolena Adorno
Hardcover, 295 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07228-2, ISBN: 0-520-07228-6

"Emphasizing the reciprocal influences of European and Andean peoples, the contributors to this volume examine the formation of a colonial society in sixteenth-century South America. Together these eight outstanding essays by specialists in anthropology, history, art history, and literary studies are a model interdisciplinary forum in Andean and colonial studies. The authors explore the Old World background to the cultural encounter; the ..."






Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Vol. 2
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Hardcover, 3 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1482-8, ISBN: 0-8032-1482-0

"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through presen ..."






Colonial Latin American Literature
A Very Short Introduction
by Rolena Adorno
168 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-991242-1, ISBN: 0-19-991242-4

"the “Vision of the Vanquished” (Visión de los vencidos), appeared in English in 1962 as The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Thus native Amerindian accounts of conquest, custom, belief, and ritual were collected in early colonial times (there are virtually no surviving strictly pre-Columbian sources), and have taken their rightful place as part of the Latin American literary and cultural heritage. A signi ..."






The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
by Rolena Adorno
449 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14496-3, ISBN: 0-300-14496-2

"... 87 Carta de Jamaica (Bolívar), 81 carta del cabildo (Cortés), 227, 244 cartas de relación (Cortés), viii, 7, 55, 291 carta universal. See Colón, Hernando de Casas, Bartolomé de las, vii, x, xi, xii, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 23, 98, 171, 193, 198, 279, 305, ... See also Apologética historia sumaria; Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias; Historia de las Indias ... 369^5; on Cortés, 130, 132, 134-136; Crónica ..."






Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Vol. 1
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Hardcover, 3 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1463-7, ISBN: 0-8032-1463-4

"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through presen ..."






ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA(1st Edition)
HIS ACCOUNT, HIS LIFE AND THE EXPEDITION OF PANFILO DE NARVAEZ (3 Volumes)
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Hardcover, 1,317 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Nebraska Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1454-5, ISBN: 0-8032-1454-5

"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through ..."






Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Vol. 3
by Rolena Adorno, Patrick Charles Pautz
Hardcover, 3 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-1485-9, ISBN: 0-8032-1485-5

"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s account of the doomed Narváez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through presen ..."






a Guidebook to Resources for Teachers of the Columbian Encounter
by Tina Reithmaier Buisseret, David Buisseret, Rolena Adorno, Tina M. Reithmaier
Paperback, Published 1992 by Newberry Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-911028-49-2, ISBN: 0-911028-49-8

"chapters by Rolena Adorno, John Aubrey, Francis Jennings and Teofilo Ruiz"






Guaman Poma De Ayala
The Colonial Art of an Andean Author
by Rolena Adorno, Tom Cummins, Mercedes Lopez-Baralt, Teresa Gisbert, John V. Murra
Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 1992 by Americas Society
ISBN-13: 978-1-879128-04-0, ISBN: 1-879128-04-7

"This book is in very good condition. There is a slight bit of shelf wear at the covers edges. The spine is not broken and the pages show no wear or use. In non book terms, this is a beautiful book by the Americas Society that takes an in depth look at Guaman Poma's illustrations and letters."






Iconografia Portica Del Nuevo Mundo/ Arcade Iconography of the New World(1st Edition)
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by Rolena Adorno, Bernadette Bucher, Mercedes López-Baralt
Paperback, 118 Pages, Published 1990 by Editorial De La Universidad De Puerto Rico
ISBN-13: 978-0-8477-3638-6, ISBN: 0-8477-3638-5

"Bernadette Bucher, Rolena Adorno, Mercedes López-Baralt. CO REGÍ MÍ E UTO OTROCORr" F/g. 66. Emblema paradigmático de Ia tipología cultural de Guarnan Poma (GP-.200). o tro sus propias armas, empleando la retórica medieval de la ... de su tipología cultural en los dibujos 199 y 200, al separar ambos arquetipos ( indio: virtud; español: vicio) por una línea que corta -a nivel gráfico- la escena en dos lados irreductibles. 73. La fras ..."






Books of the Brave(Reprint)
Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World
by Irving Albert Leonard, Rolena Adorno
Paperback, 502 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07816-1, ISBN: 0-520-07816-0

"Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences.For ..."






Colonial Latin American Literature
A Very Short Introduction
by Rolena Adorno
Digital, 167 Pages, Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-990940-7, ISBN: 0-19-990940-7

"González Echevarría, Roberto, and Enrique Pupo-Walker, eds. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Vol. 1, Discovery to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Leonard, Irving A. Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World. 2nd ed. Edited and with a new critical introduction by Rolena Adorno. Berkeley: University of Cali ..."



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