Language, authority, and indigenous history in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
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Language, authority, and indigenous history in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
(Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies)
Cambridge University Press, 2005, c1988
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 1988. This digitally printed first paperback version 2005"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 189-200
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan new-world culture with the fervent Christian evangelism of the period of the discovery and conquest of America. This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach. Margarita Zamora examines the rhetorical complexities of the Comentarios, and shows how, in order to present Inca civilization to Europeans, Garcilaso turned to disciplines other than traditional historiography, and in particular to the linguistic strategies of humanist philology and hermeneutics. Professor Zamora reveals how Garcilaso's views of the Incas were shaped by the dual nature of his background, by his commitment to humanism and Christianity, by the expectations he had of his readers, and by the discursive practices of his time.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Language and history: Renaissance humanism and the philologic tradition
- 3. Language and history in the Comentarios reales
- 4. Philology, translation, and hermeneutics in the Comentarios reales
- 5. Contexts and intertexts: the discourse on the nature of the American Indian and the Comentarios reales
- 6. 'Nowhere' is somewhere: the Comentarios reales and the Utopian model
- 7. Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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