Title New world encounters / edited by Stephen Greenblatt

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations Series Representations books ; 6 Representations books ; 6. Contents Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora -- "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortes and the conquest of Mexico / Inga Clendinnen -- The negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno -- Ius et Factum: text and experience in the writings of Bartolome de Las Casas / Anthony Pagden -- Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack -- The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Lery in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant -- The aesthetics of conquest: Aztec poetry before and after Cortes / David Damrosch -- Dancing and the sacred in the Andes: from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Niti / Sara Castro-Klaren -- The work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Louis Montrose -- Ralegh's fugitive gold: reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller -- Voices of resistance: the epic curse and Camoes's Adamastor / David Quint -- Elizabethan tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp -- Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard -- Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel De Certeau Summary The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was ""the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it."" Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and inno Analysis aesthetics andes anthropology art history aztec poetry aztec brazil christopher columbus colonialism conquest of mexico conquest cortes cultural consequences discovery of the americas discovery european expansion european history expansionism gender studies gold history incas innovative latin american history literary criticism native peoples new mexico new world rasu niti representation books resistance survival toqui oncoy travel narratives united states history visual evidence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject América -- Obras anteriores a 1600 -- Historia y crítica. América -- Descubrimiento y exploraciones -- Fuentes. HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY. HISTORY / Latin America / General Discoveries in geography Entdeckung Indianen. Conquistadores. Ontdekkingsreizen. Letterkunde. Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs. Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs. Littérature et histoire. Utopies -- Dans la littérature. Impérialisme dans la littérature. SUBJECT America -- Early accounts to 1600 -- History and criticism America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004255 Subject America Amerika Amérique -- Découverte et exploration -- Sources. Amérique -- Ouvrages avant 1800 -- Histoire et critique. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works Sources Form Electronic book Author Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- LC no. 92019328 ISBN 9780520913103 0520913108 0585081557 9780585081557

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