Title Fernández de Oviedo's chronicle of America : a new history for a New World / Kathleen Ann Myers ; translations by Nina M. Scott

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 324 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents New World, new history and the writing of America -- Between two worlds : the life and writings of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes -- A reader's guide to a New World history -- The historian as actor and autobiographer : Tierra Firme 1514 -- Eyewitness to America's wonders : illustrating a natural history of the Indies -- Amazon women and New World realities : documenting an expanding world -- Cortes and the conquest of Mexico : truth and multiple testimonies -- Native Americans in Oviedo's History -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Chronology of Fernández de Oviedo's life and works -- Appendix B. Map of Hispaniola and Tierra Firme, ca. 1540 -- Appendix C. Translations of passages from Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias Summary Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) wrote the first comprehensive history of Spanish America, the Historia general y natural de las Indias, a sprawling, constantly revised work in which Oviedo attempted nothing less than a complete account of the Spanish discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas from 1492 to 1547, along with descriptions of the land's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples. His Historia, which grew to an astounding fifty volumes, includes numerous interviews with the Spanish and indigenous leaders who were literally making history, the first extensive field drawings of America rendered by a European, reports of exotic creatures, ethnographic descriptions of indigenous groups, and detailed reports about the conquest and colonization process. Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America explores how, in writing his Historia, Oviedo created a new historiographical model that reflected the vastness of the Americas and Spain's enterprise there. Kathleen Myers uses a series of case studies--focusing on Oviedo's self-portraits, drawings of American phenomena, approaches to myth, process of revision, and depictions of Native Americans--to analyze Oviedo's narrative and rhetorical strategies and show how they relate to the politics, history, and discursive practices of his time. Accompanying the case studies are all of Oviedo's extant field drawings and a wide selection of his text in English translation. The first study to examine the entire Historia and its evolving rhetorical and historical context, this book confirms Oviedo's assertion that "the New World required a different kind of history" as it helps modern readers understand how the discovery of the Americas became a catalyst for European historiographical change Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Project MUSE Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) Project MUSE Subject Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557. Historia general y natural de las Indias. SUBJECT Historia general y natural de las Indias (Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo) fast Subject Historians -- America -- Biography Historians -- Spain -- Biography Explorers -- America -- Biography Explorers -- Spain -- Biography HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY. HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. Discoveries in geography Explorers Historians SUBJECT America -- Early accounts to 1600. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004258 America -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004246 America -- Discovery and exploration -- Biography America -- Early works to 1800 Subject America Spain Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Early works Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Scott, Nina M., translator. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557. Historia general y natural de las Indias. Selections. English. LC no. 2007021076 ISBN 9780292795020 0292795025

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