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This book analyzes the narrative and rhetorical structures of Latin American colonial texts by establishing a dialogue with contemporary studies on minority discourse, minor literatures, and colonial and postcolonial theory. The first chapter reviews the current disciplinary debate between colonial Latin American studies and early modern, transatlantic, and postcolonial studies, paying attention to the epistemic and institutional junctures that explain the current reconfiguration of these fields of scholarship. As an alternative to an exhausted debate, this study uses Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's notion of a 'minor literature' along with current studies on minority discourse to propose new close readings of canonical texts by Hernán Cortés, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the Inca Garcilasco de la Vega, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Latin

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      Publisher: Bucknell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2008
      ISBN13: 9781611482980, 978-1611482980
      ISBN10: 1611482984

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      Book Synopsis
      This book analyzes the narrative and rhetorical structures of Latin American colonial texts by establishing a dialogue with contemporary studies on minority discourse, minor literatures, and colonial and postcolonial theory. The first chapter reviews the current disciplinary debate between colonial Latin American studies and early modern, transatlantic, and postcolonial studies, paying attention to the epistemic and institutional junctures that explain the current reconfiguration of these fields of scholarship. As an alternative to an exhausted debate, this study uses Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's notion of a 'minor literature' along with current studies on minority discourse to propose new close readings of canonical texts by Hernán Cortés, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the Inca Garcilasco de la Vega, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

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