Michael de Carvajal’s fascinating and unusual play—published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557—is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World. It is a long-ignored but fundamental source for the study of Latin American cultural history. A theatrical version of the Spanish Conquest clearly influenced by Bartolomé de Las Casas, the play centers on a group of American natives filing a complaint against the Spanish conquistadors—before a tribunal presided over by Death. They denounce the horrors and crimes committed against them by the conquistadors and colonizers in their idolatrous greed for gold. The play constitutes an allegorical summary of the debates of the day about the emergence of the Spanish Empire, the justification of conquest, the right to wage war against the Indians, the evangelization of the natives, the discrimination against the newly converted peoples of the New World, the exploitation of Indian labor, the extent of the emperor’s sovereignty, and the right to resist tyranny. The translation by Carlos Jáuregui and Mark Smith-Soto is the first English edition of this important work. It is presented in an annotated, bilingual edition, with a critical introduction that discusses the origins and ideological significance of the play.

The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death (Latin American Originals)

Literature & Fiction

Jáuregui, Carlos A.

Dramas & Plays

Penn State University Press

Canibalia: canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Spanish Edition)

A traves de un ambicioso recorrido historico y cultural que abarca desde la cultura renacentista a la postmodernidad, de las bellas letras a la cultura popular y de la antropologia a los discursos visuales (cartografia, iconografia, cine), Canibalia (Premio de Ensayo Casa de las Americas, 2005) recorre la multiple genealogia del tropo canibal como aproximacion simbolica a la condicion (post)colonial de America Latina desde la Conquista hasta nuestros dias. Multifacetico y de apasionante lectura, Canibalia es el ambicioso producto de una gran erudicion que ha logrado resistir las pruebas de la sensibilidad interpretativa con originalidad hermeneutica, humor y rigor ideologico.

Canibalia: canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Ensayos de teoría cultural) (Spanish Edition)

Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, S.L.

A traves de un recorrido que va del Renacimiento a la posmodernidad, de las letras a la cultura popular y de la antropologia a las culturas visuales, recorre el tropo del canibal como simbolo de la condicion de America.

From the configuration of Empire in the colonial period to the multiple facets of modern coloniality, this book offers a challenging approach to the developments and effects of imperial domination and neocolonial rule in Latin America. Thought of as a contribution to current debates on postcolonialism and covering an ample range of topics, geocultural fields, and historical scenarios, Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America provides indispensable materials to the study of the formation and representation of colonial and modern subjectivities, the role of historical accounts, cultural practices, and symbolic representation (literary writing, oral narratives, visual images, and artifacts) through which some of the parameters of colonized epistemologies become apparent to the European Other.

Revisiting the colonial question in Latin America

History

Moraña, Mabel

Americas

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The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death (Latin American Originals)

Canibalia: canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Ensayos de teoría cultural) (Spanish Edition)

Canibalia: canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Spanish Edition)

Revisiting the colonial question in Latin America