Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period

Foster, David William (EDT); Altamiranda, Daniel (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0815326785 / ISBN 13: 9780815326786

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815326785
• ISBN 13: 9780815326786
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of the latter part of the colonial period.

About the Author

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisiplinary Humanitics, and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. He is the editor of LiteraturaEspanola: una Antologia, Literatura Hispanoamericana: unaAntologia, and Handbook of Latin American Literature, Second Edition, all published by Garland.
DanielAltamiranda is Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Former Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has published on literary theory, contemporary Latin American writing and Golden Age Drama.