Description
Book SynopsisExplores the unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and post-structuralist approaches to the study of history, this book uncovers a legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition.
Trade Review“Territories reads like what it is, a first book, but only in the very best sense: it is concise, clear, well-organized and well-argued. Beckjord adopts her structure readymade from literary studies—a series of chapters on individual authors—and her argument is couched in terms of an established discipline, narratology. . . . Territories of History will take its place alongside the best work on the place of the chronicles in intellectual history.”
—William Childers De Gruyter
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Historical Representation in the Spanish Humanist Context: Juan Luis Vives
2. Conjecture and Credibility in the Historia general y natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
3. Vision and Voice: The Historia de las Indias by Bartolomé de Las Casas
4. History and Memory: Narrative Perspective in Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
