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Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the ’Comentarios reales de los Incas’

By Margarita Zamora

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780521019644, 9780511519390, 0521350875, 0521019648, 0511519397, 9780521350877
LCC
F3429.V3873 Z36 1988
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5269730 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
220\219
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Comentarios reales de los Incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is filled with ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan New World culture with the fervent Christian evangelism of the period of the discovery and conquest of America. This study of the Commentarios, is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach. Margarita Zamora examines the rhetorical complexities of the Comentarios, and shows how Garcilaso turned to the linguistic strategies of humanist philology and hermeneutics rather than traditional historiography in order to present Inca civilization to the Europeans. Zamora's book reveals how Garcilaso's views of the Incas were shaped by his dual background, his commitment to humanism and Christianity, by the expectations he had of his readers, and by the disruptive practices of his time.

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