Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of EurocentrismUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1993 - 281 páginas In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world. |
Índice
An Introduction | 3 |
The Nakedness of America? | 23 |
America Jan van der Straet Nova reperta | 25 |
Columbus and the New Scriptural Economy | 49 |
4 | 69 |
Dialogue as Conquest in the CortésCharles V | 83 |
The Garden in the Ideal City of the Conquistador | 93 |
6 | 96 |
The Narrative Thread of New Spain | 116 |
The Time of the Encyclopedia | 125 |
Utopia and the Devils | 151 |
Allegories of Atlas | 180 |
Epilogue | 210 |
Bibliography | 252 |
151 | 268 |
| 272 | |
Términos y frases comunes
allegory Amerindians ancient Angeles Anthropology Atlas Bartolomé Bernardino de Sahagún caption cartographical Casas Casas's Certeau chapter Colón Colonial Discourse Columbus Columbus's conquest conquistador constitute Cortés Cortés's critique cultural deconstruction defined dialogue Diario discovery Edited encyclopedia essay ethnographic Eurocentric Europe European exotic exploration Fernández de Oviedo Florentine Codex forms Franciscan geographic Gerbi Hernán Cortés historiography Indias Indies indigenous interpretation invention of America knowledge land landscape las Indias letter Madrid Marco Polo marvelous medieval Mercator metaphorical Mexican Mexico City Michel Michel de Certeau millenarian Moctezuma mode modern motifs Motolinía mundo Nahua Nahuatl narrative native natural noble savage notion Nueva España Oviedo palimpsest paradise paradox Paris passage political production question reading Renaissance representation Sahagún semiotic sixteenth century space Spain Spaniards Spanish Stradanus Stradanus's symbolic Tenochtitlan territories tierra tion trace trans transformation Translated University Press Vespucci vols voyage writing York
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