The creole invention of Peru : ethnic nation and epic poetry in colonial Lima /

More than with Lima, this book deals with a specific social formation, the criollos or Creoles, particularly the beneméritos or descendants of conquistadors, whose study has almost always framed them as belonging to a colonial past that was supposedly erased and surpassed during the Republic. This s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzotti, José Antonio, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2019]
Series:Cambria studies in Latin American literatures and cultures series.
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Table of Contents:
  • A creole perspective : Pedro de Oña between loyalty and chaos
  • El dorado, paradise, and supreme sanctity in seventeenth-century Peru : a creole agenda
  • "Limpieza de tinta" : ethnic nation and warrior community in Lima's epic poetry
  • Fernando de Valverde and Andean monsters : mystical creolism in the pilgrimage to Copacabana
  • Rodrigo de Valdés between the Empire of Peru and the Latinization of the language
  • Peralta, Inca Garcilaso, and the genesis of creolism in Lima fundada.