Title Page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Peru in English: The Early History of the English Fascination with Peru; 1: Introduction; 2: Historical Texts; 3: Accounts of Sea Voyages and Travel; 4: Collections of Voyages and Travels; 5: Geographies and Atlases; 6: Documents, Monographs and Theatre; 7: Conclusion; Part II: The Inca and Inca Symbolism in Popular Festive Culture: The Religious Processions of Seventeenth-Century Cuzco; 8: Exploring Incan Identity; 9: The Inca and the Politics of Nostalgia; 10: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas -- I; 11: The Inca Motif in Colonial Fiestas -- II
Summary
The reception of the discovery, conquest and colonisation of Spanish America spawned a rich imaginative literature. The case studies presented in this book represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups: literate, and in some cases erudite Europeans, and a vanquished native nobility. The former endeavoured to make sense of Spains (and Portugals) marvellous possessions in the New World with the limited conceptual tools at their disposal, the latter to construct a colonial identity based on their shared ancestral memory while incorporating elements from the
