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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| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2019]
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| 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.