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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: 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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