"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vacas Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vacas 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 RolenaAdorno 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 ..."
"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 RolenaAdorno 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 RolenaAdorno Hardcover, 189 Pages, Published 1986 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72452-5, ISBN: 0-292-72452-7
"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, RolenaAdorno 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’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 ..."
"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 ..."
"... 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’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 RolenaAdorno, 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
"Ãlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vacaâs 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’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 ..."
"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."
"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, RolenaAdorno 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 ..."
"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 ..."