Epics of Empire and Frontier
Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
322 Pages | 7 x 10 | 10 b&w illus., 9 color plates, 1 map, 1 table
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“Epics of Empire and Frontier constitutes a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Spanish colonial epics studies that has enabled scholars to revise the history of colonialism in the Americas. Celia López-Chávez does a superior job of teasing from these literary texts a detailed account of historical events from the Spanish point of view, and offering a postcolonial critique of those events.”—Raúl Marrero-Fente, author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World
“In this first book-length comparison of Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nueva México—two important epic poems—Celia López-Chávez offers an original reading and interpretation and makes a commendable effort to relate past to present.”—Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez, editor of With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships across the Centuries
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