Ret-rica, Historia y PolZmica: BartolomZ de las Casas y la tradici-n intelectual renacentista

by Santa Arias

Overview

Retórica, historia y polémica is a study of Bartolomé de las Casas' writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and "politics of discourse" to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the most pervasive antihegemonic perspective of the conquest. The project focuses principally on Las Casas' most ambitious text, Historia de las Indias (1522-1527), although examples are also drawn from De unico vocationis modo (1522-1527). (TEXT IN SPANISH)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761821830
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/13/2001
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Santa Arias is Assistant Professor, Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Ilustraciones Chapter 2 Reconocimientos Chapter 3 Introducción: Escritura y trascendencia de los textos lascasianos Chapter 4 Textos, contextos y pretextos de la Historia Chapter 5 Principia biographica: Las Casas y el pleito colombino Chapter 6 Geografías de lo real y lo imaginario Chapter 7 Alteridad y violencia del discurso colonial Chapter 8 Apologia pro vita sua Chapter 9 Notas Chapter 10 Bibliografía Chapter 11 Indice

Editorial Reviews

...there is considerable food for thought in this short monograph.

Hispanic American Historical Review - Lawrence A. Clayton

...there is considerable food for thought in this short monograph.--Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama "Hispanic American Historical Review "

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...there is considerable food for thought in this short monograph.
— Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama

Hispanic American Historical Review