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Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing - Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies (Paperback)
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Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing - Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies (Paperback)
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Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American
Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history
writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early
colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse
perspectives how epic and heroic poetry served to construe a new
Spanish-American elite of original explorers and conquistadors in
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies.
Similarly, this book offers an interpretation of Castellanos's
writings that shows his critical engagement with the reformist
project postulated in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, and it
elucidates the complex poetic discourse Castellanos created to
defend the interests of the early generation of explorers and
conquistadors in the aftermath of the promulgation of the New Laws
and the mounting criticism of the institution of the encomienda.
Within the larger context of a new poetics of imperialistic
expansion, this book shows how the Elegies offers one of the
earliest examples of the reconfiguration of some of the main tenets
of Petrarchism/Garcilacism, as well as the bold transmutation of
dominant poetic discourses that had until then been typically
associated with the nobility. Focusing on the practice of poetic
imitation (imitatio) and the themes of authority, piracy, and
captivity, this book shows the transformation undergone by heroic
poetry owing to Europe's encounter with America and illustrates the
contribution of learned heroic verse to the emergence of a
Spanish-American literary tradition.
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