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The Incas: The Royal Commentaries of the Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, 1539-1616 » Read Now
by Maria Jolas. 434 pgs.

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The Florida of the Inca: A History of the Adelantado, Hernando de Soto, Governor and Captain General of the Kingdom of Florida, and of Other Heroic Spanish and Indian Cavaliers » Read Now
by Garcilaso de la Vega, John Grier Varner, Jeannette Johnson Varner. 656 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cavaliers, written by The Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, an officer of His Majesty...AT JUST what date the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega first became obsessed...
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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543 (includes "Garcilaso de la Vega, the Inca") » Read Now
by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight Jr., Edward C. Moore. 596 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...biographical and critical essay, "Garcilaso de la Vega, the Inca" by Frances Crowley...Soto Chronicles VOLUME II Garcilaso de la Vega, the Inca by Frances G...the...
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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast (includes "La Florida del Inca: Garcilaso's Literary Sources") » Read Now
by Patricia Galloway. 466 pgs.

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From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto and several hundred men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast of America. These multidisciplinary essays investigate the cultural and literary impact of this expedition on the native American societies they encountered.
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Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (includes "The Law of the Letter: Garcilaso's Comentarios") » Read Now
by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. 250 pgs.

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Myth and Archive presents a new theory of the origin and evolution of Latin American literature and the emergence of the modern novel. In this influential, award-winning exploration of Latin American writing from colonial times to the present, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria dispenses with traditional...
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Myth and Archive presents a new theory of the origin and evolution of Latin American literature and the emergence of the modern novel. In this influential, award-winning exploration of Latin American writing from colonial times to the present, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria dispenses with traditional literary history to reveal the indebted relationship of the novel to legal, scientific, and anthropological discourses.
Providing ways to link literary and nonliterary narratives, Gonzalez Echevarria examines a variety of archival writings -- from the chronicles of the discovery and conquest of the New World to scientific travel narratives and records of criminal confessions -- and explores the relationship of these writings to novels by authors such as Garcia Marquez, Borges, Barnet, Sarmiento, Carpentier, and Garcilaso de la Vega. Moving beyond demonstrating that early forms of creative narrative had their geneses in the sixteenth-century authoritative discourse of the Spanish Empire, Gonzalez Echevarria shows,how this same originating process has been repeated in other key moments in the history of the Latin American narrative. He shows how the discourse of scientific discovery was the model for much nineteenth-century literature, as well as how anthropological writings on the nature of language and myth have come to shape the ideology and form of literature in the twentieth century. This most recent form of Latin American narrative creates its own mythic form through an atavistic return to its legal origins -- the archive.
This acclaimed book -- originally published in 1990 -- will be of continuing interest to historians, anthropologists, literary theorists, and students of LatinAmerican culture.
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The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America (includes "The Lightning Bolt Yields to the Rainbow: Indigenous History and Colonial Semiosis in the Royal Commentaries of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega") » Read Now
by Doris Sommer. 314 pgs.

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Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American...
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Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical focus to literary studies. They suggest that only by exploring the particularities of regional historical cultures can the multiple meanings of American identities be understood. Representing a broad range of contemporary criticism, this volume features many short essays by the most well-known & respected Latin Americanists, each devoting attention to specific matters of history. The topics range from Incan architecture to Chicano & Nuyorican habitats; from turn of the century Argentine criminology to Caribbean homophobia; from the rhetorics of independence & dictatorship to Mexican ambivalence about opera & Brazil's move beyond monarchy; & from the precarious survival of Spanish language in Latin America to its paradoxical legacy of enlightenment in the Philippines. Originally published as a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly (June 1996), this expanded edition includes a new introduction by Doris Sommer & a new essay by Vincente Rafael. Viewed together, these essays reveal a cultural richness that is sure to interest literary scholars & Latin Americanists alike.
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The Conquest of Peru Through the Native Looking Glass, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Raquel Chang-Rodriguez. 10 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and a "mestizo" historian, Garcilaso de la Vega Inca. Their works are of different...by the "mestizo" writer Garcilaso de la Vega Inca in his Royal Commentaries...colonial...
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Spanish American Literature: A History » Read Now
by Enrique Anderson Imbert, John V. Falconieri. 624 pgs.

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...Suarez de Peralta / The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / Prosperous and Poor Lands...Garcilaso attempted. The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / The most gifted of the mestizo writers...
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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975 » Read Now
by James S. Olson, Sam L. Slick, Samuel Freeman, Virginia Garrard Burnett, Fred Koestler. 710 pgs.

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This authoritative reference book looks at the process by which Spain extended its influence throughout the modern world. It provides more than 1,200 brief descriptive essays covering colonies, individuals, political institutions, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, technologies...
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This authoritative reference book looks at the process by which Spain extended its influence throughout the modern world. It provides more than 1,200 brief descriptive essays covering colonies, individuals, political institutions, legislation, treaties, conferences, wars, revolutions, technologies, social and religious groups, and military battles. References at the end of each entry provide sources of additional information for those wishing to pursue the subject further. Cross-references within the text, designated by an asterisk, will help the reader to find related items.
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