Epics of empire and frontier Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá as Spanish colonial chroniclers López-Chávez, Celia creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. oku 2016 monographic eng print xii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm "First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagra, Mexican-born captain under the explorer, Juan de Onate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva Mexico, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In Epics of Empire and Frontier--a deft cultural, ethnohistorical reading of these two colonial epics, both of which loom large in the canon of Spanish literature--Celia Lopez-Chavez reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier. Employing historical and literary analysis that goes from the global to the regional, and from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Lopez-Chavez considers Ercilla and Villagra not only as writers but as citizens and subjects of the powerful Spanish empire. Although frontiers of conquest have always been central to the regional histories of the Americas, this is the first work to approach the subject through epic poetry and the main events in the poets' lives. Lopez-Chavez also investigates the geographical spaces and landmarks where the conquests of Chile and New Mexico took place, the natural landscape of each area as both the Spanish and the natives saw it, and the characteristics of the expedition in both regions, with special attention to the violence of the invasions. In her discussion of law, geography, and frontier, Lopez-Chavez carries the poems' firsthand testimony on the political, cultural, and social resistance of indigenous people into present-day debates about regional and national identity. An interdisciplinary, comparative postcolonial interpretation of the history found in two poetic narratives of conquest, Epics of Empire and Frontier brings fresh understanding to the role that poetry plays in regional and national memory and culture"-- Celia López-Chávez. Includes bibliographical references and index. cl----- e-sp--- Spanish poetry Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de 1533-1594 Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de 1555-1620 Literature and history Latin America Colonies in literature Indigenous peoples in literature Spaniards in literature Imperialism in literature LITERARY CRITICISM European Spanish & Portuguese HISTORY Latin America Mexico HISTORY Latin America South America POETRY Epic Colonies in literature Imperialism in literature Indigenous peoples in literature Literature and history Spaniards in literature Spanish poetry Classical period Latin America 1500-1700 fast PQ6066 .L68 2016 860.9/003 LIT004280 HIS025000 HIS033000 POE014000 9780806152295 080615229X 2015040527 DLC 151228 20201124102236.0 in00003780108 eng