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Book Synopsis
By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
    • Guaman Poma in the Documentary Record
    • The Production and Facsimile Reproduction of the Autograph Manuscript
    • Recent Advances in the Study of Guaman Poma's Visual and Verbal Art
    • Guaman Poma in the 1590s
      • The Expediente Prado Tello
      • Guaman Poma in the Expediente Prado Tello
      • Guaman Poma versus Don Domingo Jauli and the Chachapoyas
      • The Conclusion of the Land-Title Litigation
    • Guaman Poma in 1600: The Sentence of Exile from Huamanga
    • Chupas and the Chachapoyas in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
    • Mestizaje in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
    • Guaman Poma's Biography Reconsidered
    • Writing and Religion: The Visita Report
    • An Anticipated Glimpse into the Artist's Studio
  • Introduction
    • History Writing and Polemic
    • Challenging the Canon
  • 1. Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest
    • Guaman Poma's Exploitation of Written Histories
    • Respect for History
    • The Dominican Philosophy of Conquest
    • The Dramatization of a Hypothesis
    • The Present Overwhelms the Past
  • 2. Searching for a Heroic Conception
    • Historical Truth and Moral Vision
    • Biographies of Incas and Kings
    • The Prologue Always Comes Last
    • The Nueva Coronica as Epic Story
  • 3. From Story to Sermon
    • Granadine Strategies
    • On Moving the Reader's Affections
    • The Literature of Conversion
    • A Theory of Cross-Cultural Communication
    • The Privileged Role of Invention
    • The Simile of Lucifer
    • The Voice and Character of the Preacher
    • The Sermon Overtakes the Story
  • 4. Icons in Space: The Silent Orator
    • Baroque Sensibilities
    • Visual Representation and Suppression
    • The Symbolic Values of Pictorial Space
    • Lines of Authority and Hierarchy
    • Disorder on the Horizontal Axis
    • Paradigms Lost: The Reversed Diagonal and the Empty Center
  • 5. Mediating among Many Worlds
    • Allegory, Satire, and the Sermon
    • Of Caciques and Coyas
    • Inside the Coya's Chamber
    • The Present in the Past
    • The Author as Hero
    • Guaman Poma's Final Critique
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Guaman Poma Writing and Resistance in Colonial

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    Publisher: University of Texas Press
    Publication Date: 01/12/2000
    ISBN13: 9780292705036, 978-0292705036
    ISBN10: 0292705034
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history.

    Table of Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
      • Guaman Poma in the Documentary Record
      • The Production and Facsimile Reproduction of the Autograph Manuscript
      • Recent Advances in the Study of Guaman Poma's Visual and Verbal Art
      • Guaman Poma in the 1590s
        • The Expediente Prado Tello
        • Guaman Poma in the Expediente Prado Tello
        • Guaman Poma versus Don Domingo Jauli and the Chachapoyas
        • The Conclusion of the Land-Title Litigation
      • Guaman Poma in 1600: The Sentence of Exile from Huamanga
      • Chupas and the Chachapoyas in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
      • Mestizaje in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
      • Guaman Poma's Biography Reconsidered
      • Writing and Religion: The Visita Report
      • An Anticipated Glimpse into the Artist's Studio
    • Introduction
      • History Writing and Polemic
      • Challenging the Canon
    • 1. Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest
      • Guaman Poma's Exploitation of Written Histories
      • Respect for History
      • The Dominican Philosophy of Conquest
      • The Dramatization of a Hypothesis
      • The Present Overwhelms the Past
    • 2. Searching for a Heroic Conception
      • Historical Truth and Moral Vision
      • Biographies of Incas and Kings
      • The Prologue Always Comes Last
      • The Nueva Coronica as Epic Story
    • 3. From Story to Sermon
      • Granadine Strategies
      • On Moving the Reader's Affections
      • The Literature of Conversion
      • A Theory of Cross-Cultural Communication
      • The Privileged Role of Invention
      • The Simile of Lucifer
      • The Voice and Character of the Preacher
      • The Sermon Overtakes the Story
    • 4. Icons in Space: The Silent Orator
      • Baroque Sensibilities
      • Visual Representation and Suppression
      • The Symbolic Values of Pictorial Space
      • Lines of Authority and Hierarchy
      • Disorder on the Horizontal Axis
      • Paradigms Lost: The Reversed Diagonal and the Empty Center
    • 5. Mediating among Many Worlds
      • Allegory, Satire, and the Sermon
      • Of Caciques and Coyas
      • Inside the Coya's Chamber
      • The Present in the Past
      • The Author as Hero
      • Guaman Poma's Final Critique
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index

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