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The Epic Mirror - Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru (Hardcover)
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The Epic Mirror - Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru (Hardcover)
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How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth
and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical
solutions to the violent conflicts of their age? Winner of the
2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize The Epic Mirror
studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search
for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The
wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the
Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging:
fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish
settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial
reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and
political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic
literature, the history of political thought, and studies of
empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three
major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de
Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Ona's Arauco domado
(1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuazola's Armas antarticas (1608-9).
She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the
development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the
imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same
questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those
in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by
irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it
possible to achieve peace?
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