Raúl Marrero-Fente

Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts

Writing on Literature and Law in Colonial Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book promotes dialogue between Hispanic Atlantic cultures by exploring legal and literary texts from a cross-cultural perspective, while also considering the theoretical contributions of spectral criticism. Marrero-Fente argues that a transatlantic approach provides a broader framework to rethink the ways in which literature and law has been formulated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780761852353
• ISBN-10: 0761852352
• Artikelnr.: 30534413

Autorenporträt

Raúl Marrero-Fente is associate professor of Spanish and law at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on colonial Latin America, transatlantic studies, and human rights. He is the author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa's Espejo de Paciencia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1. Spectral Agency:
Epic, Loss and the Work of Mourning in Colonial Latin American Literature
Chapter 4 2. Phantom Texts, Scientific Knowledge, and Cultural Geography in
La Conquista del Perú (1538) Chapter 5 3. Epic, Haunting, and Violence in
Los actos y hazañas valerosas del capitán Diego Hernández de Serpa (1564)
by Pedro de la Cadena Chapter 6 4. Female Agency and Araucanian Ghosts: The
Work of Mourning in La Araucana (1569) by Alonso de Ercilla Chapter 7 5.
Phantom Authorship, Amerindian Bodies, and Slavery in Nuevo mundo y
conquista (1580) by Francisco de Terrazas Chapter 8 6. Aztec Ghosts and the
Voice of Death in Romances and Songs Related to the Conquest of Mexico
Chapter 9 7. Spectral Texts and Ghost Author in Historia de la Invención de
las Indias (1525) by Fernán Pérez de Oliva Chapter 10 8. Literature,
Memory, and Mourning: The Trauma of Conquest in La Florida (1605) by Inca
Garcilaso de la Vega Chapter 11 9. Reading the Specter in the Law:
Colonialism and Culture in the Royal Commentaries (1609) by Inca Garcilaso
de la Vega Chapter 12 10. The Afterlife of Colonial Legal Texts: Spanish
Legal Imperialism and the Conquest of America Chapter 13 11. Human Rights
and Academic Discourse: Teaching Las Casas-Sepúlveda debate in the Times of
the Iraq War Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index