The document summarizes Spanish-American literature from the colonial period, beginning with a survey of recent scholarship on the topic. It then discusses in turn: pre-Columbian literature including Nahuatl poetry and codices; colonial-era historians such as Guaman Poma de Ayala, Cieza de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega; poetry including the works of Ercilla, Balbuena, and Castellanos; prose works such as those by Sigiienza y Gongora; and drama including analyses of specific plays. The document provides an overview of major authors and texts from the colonial period of Spanish-American literature.
The document summarizes Spanish-American literature from the colonial period, beginning with a survey of recent scholarship on the topic. It then discusses in turn: pre-Columbian literature including Nahuatl poetry and codices; colonial-era historians such as Guaman Poma de Ayala, Cieza de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega; poetry including the works of Ercilla, Balbuena, and Castellanos; prose works such as those by Sigiienza y Gongora; and drama including analyses of specific plays. The document provides an overview of major authors and texts from the colonial period of Spanish-American literature.
The document summarizes Spanish-American literature from the colonial period, beginning with a survey of recent scholarship on the topic. It then discusses in turn: pre-Columbian literature including Nahuatl poetry and codices; colonial-era historians such as Guaman Poma de Ayala, Cieza de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega; poetry including the works of Ercilla, Balbuena, and Castellanos; prose works such as those by Sigiienza y Gongora; and drama including analyses of specific plays. The document provides an overview of major authors and texts from the colonial period of Spanish-American literature.
The document summarizes Spanish-American literature from the colonial period, beginning with a survey of recent scholarship on the topic. It then discusses in turn: pre-Columbian literature including Nahuatl poetry and codices; colonial-era historians such as Guaman Poma de Ayala, Cieza de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega; poetry including the works of Ercilla, Balbuena, and Castellanos; prose works such as those by Sigiienza y Gongora; and drama including analyses of specific plays. The document provides an overview of major authors and texts from the colonial period of Spanish-American literature.
Source: The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies , 1981, Vol. 43 (1981), pp. 473-475 Published by: Brill
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200.14.96.56 on Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:02:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Latin-American Studies 473 SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE THE COLONIAL PERIOD By Peter T. Bradley, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin-A merican Studies in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
i. General A. W. Ashhurst, La literatura hispanoamericana en la critica espanola, M, Gredos, 1980, 643 pp., offers a fair coverage of the colonial era and suggests a general reluctance on the part of Spanish critics to recognize the separate identity of Spanish-American authors. Les Cultures iberiques en devenir. Essaispublies en hommage a la memoire de Marcel Bataillon (iSg^-igjj), Paris, Singer-Polignac, 1979, 783 pp., contains important contributions on Las Casas and his times, the structure of Lopez de Gomara's Historia general, autografos of Sor Juana and the Relation of Pedro Pizarro. C. O. Stoetzer, 'Historia intelectual del periodo colonial', RIAB, 29, 1979:171-96, lists works in many cases relevant to the literary history of the period, and S. C. Mohler, ib., 28, 1978:259-73, presents a survey of colonial publishing. See alsoj. D. Maciel etaL, *La literatura virreinal: antologia, BA, Centro Editor, 1979, 122 pp. 2. Pre-Columbian T. D. Rebolledo discusses the Nahuatl poetry of Macuilxochitl, 'probably the only known woman poet of the pre-Columbian era', in RIAB, 28, 1978:283-89. There are the following important recent editions of codices: Codex en cruz, ed. C. E. Dibble, Salt Lake City, Utah U.P., 148 pp., comprising a volume of texts of Aztec MSS and an atlas; The Codex Perez and the Book of Chilam Balam of Manx, transl. and ed. E. R. Craine and R. C. Reindorp, Norman, Oklahoma U.P., 1979, xxi 4- 207 pp., a useful but not definitive English version of Yucatecan documents; Cddice Tudela, ed. J. Tudela de la Orden, 2 vols, M, Cultura Hispanica, 1980, which lists and evaluates Mexican codices in general and publishes a facsimile edition of this text; and El cddice vindobonensis, ed. J. L. Melgarejo Vivanco, Xalapa, Veracruz U.P., 1980, 156 pp. Note also E. Bendezu Ay bar, Literatura quechua, Caracas, Ayacucho, 1980, 450 pp.
3. Historians F. Pease, 'Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: mitos andinos e historia occidental', Caravelle, 37:19-33, is a detailed analysis of the interac tion of these elements in the Nueva coronica. The latter is carefully interpreted as a demonstration to the Spanish Crown of the benefits,
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both to Indians and Spaniards, of ethnic separation in Peru, by S.
Castro-Klaren in Revlb, 114-15:45-67. Renewed interest in this writer has produced two worthy editions: Nueva cronicay buen gobierno, transl. and ed. F. Pease, 2 vols, Caracas, Ayacucho, 1980, and Nueva coronica y buen gobierno, transl. J. Urioste, ed. J. V. Murra and R. Adorno, Mexico, Siglo XXI. J. Pla puts forward hypotheses related to the linguistic formation of Ruy Diaz de Guzman in CA, 238: 192-205. F. Cantu, Pedro Cieza de Leon e il eDescubrimientoy conquista del Peru3 (Studi di storia moderna e contemporanea, 8), Ro, Istituto Storico Italiano, 1979, is based on the discovery of an autograph MS in the Vatican Library which has made possible this first full version of C.'s work, including 28 previously unpublished chapters, and is prefaced by a sound introduction. A new journal, Letterature d3America, Rome, presents L. Pranzetti on Tl naufragio come metafora' in the work of Cabeza de Vaca, 1, no. 1, 1980, S. Benso on 'Le metamorfosi di Cibola' by the chroniclers, and an analysis of accounts of the journey of Lope de Aguirre by R. Cambra and A. Morino, ib., 2, no. 6. J.-P. Duviols describes how Columbus and Vespucci portray Indians of the New World, in LNL, 236:39-53. G. Marchetti, Cultura indigena e integrazione nazionale (la 'Storia antica del Messico3 di F. J. Clavijero), Albano Terme, Venice, Piovan, 1980, 126 pp., is a fine critical analysis. With reference to Las Casas, J. von Stackelberg examines the source and development of the 'Legende vom "Apostel der Indios" als Initiator des Negersklavenhandels', in Iberoromania, 13:30-46. Novelesque elements in Garcilaso el Inca's La Florida are the theme for D. Puccini, in *RNC, 240, 1979. J. Durand considers 'Peru y Ophir' in G.'s work, in *Hist6rica, Lima, 3, no. 2, 1979. He is considered a pioneer in the literary field by J. B. Fernandez, in Revista Universitaria de Letras, Mar del Plata, 1, no. 2, 1979, and his work as translator is examined by J. Moreli Pando in Estudios sobre el mundo latinoamericano, Ro, Centro di Studi Americanistici, 247 pp. Fray Toribio de Motolinia, Relation de los ritos antiguos, idolatriasy sacrificios de los indios de la Nueva Espana, ed. J. O. Aragon, 2 vols, Mexico, Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo El Real de Escorial-Hispa nic Society of America, 1979, consists of an annotated palaeographic transcription of the 16th-century Mexico City MS and a photo graphic facsimile. Fray J. de Alcala, La relation de Michoacdn, ed. F. Miranda, Morelia, Fimax, 1980, xlv + 398 pp., utilizes different types of print to separate the Indian original and the comments of Alcala.
4. Poetry R. Lagos seeks to prove that the non-American and the sentimental episodes of La araucana form an integral part of the poem as a result of
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200.14.96.56 on Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:02:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Spanish-American Literature: Colonial Period 475 modifications by Ercilla to his original 'programacion epica', in CA, 238:157-91. The five best, of twelve anonymous poems discovered in MS form in Guatemala, are reproduced with comments by W. L. Felker, in Hispanofila, 73:69-78. The scarcity of such material rather than their literary merit is the main source of interest. A. de Colombi-Monguio uncovers fascinating influences and imitations in the poem 'Cancion a un desengano' of Matias de Bocanegra, in Thesaurus, 36:23-43. Whereas previous critics refer to the confused pattern of Bernardo de Balbuena's Bernardo, G. Trivifios postulates a unifying central theme of nationalistic sentiment, in CA, 236:79-102. The 'tone' and 'tenor' of the poetry of Castellanos surprisingly appears in Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, 6. Revolution in the Americas, San Diego, The Campanile Press, 1979, 280 pp. As an aid to encouraging the correction of some mistaken criticism of Pedro de Ona, J. Roman-Lagunas makes a useful list of his works and relevant bibliography, in RIAB, 31:345-65. There is a handy edition of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sonetos y endechas, B, Labor, 1980, 181 pp., with a perceptive introduction by R. Chacel and a helpful prologue and notes by X. Villaurutia. See also F. de la Maza, *Sor J. I. de la Cruz ante la historia, ed. E. Trabulse, Mexico, UNAM, 1980, 612 pp.
5. Prose J. G. Johnson briefly traces picaresque elements in Sigiienza y Gongora's Los infortunios de Alonso Ramirez, in HisC, 64:60-67.
6. Drama CM. Suarez Radillo, El teatro barroco hispanoamericano. Ensayo de una historia critico-antoldgica, 3 vols, M, Porrua Turanzas, describes the distinctive features of the baroque throughout the regions of Spanish America, comments on selected texts and displays the results of years of dedication to the theatre and its study. J. Concha sets Alarcon's La cueva de Salamanca against social and political conflicts of the times, in Revlb, 114-15:69-81. Note also O. Arroniz, * Teatro de evangelization en Nueva Espana, Mexico, UNAM, 1980, 255 pp.
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James J. Murphy - The 26th Annual Newberry Library Renalssance Conference - Rhetoric in The Renaissance - A Basic Bibliography (1979, The Newberry Library)
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