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This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Castellanos’s poems and Alonso de Ercilla’s the Araucana and elucidates the complex poetic discourse Castellanos created to defend the interest of the first generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors that settled in the New World in the sixteenth century.
List of contents
A Note on Editions Consulted and Translations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
One: "The great deeds that I speak of / carry in themselves an intrinsic worth and significance": American Epic After Ercilla
Two: A Crisis in the Poetic Practice of imitatio: An encomendero Poet Responds to Alonso de Ercilla's the Araucana
Three: "In this our new sacred sheepfold": Piracy, Epic, and Identity in Cantos One and Two of Discurso del capitán Francisco Draque
Four: Poetic Emulation and the Performance of Power in Canto Three of Discurso del capitán Francisco Draque
Five: Captivity, Authority, and Friendship in the Writings of Juan de Castellanos
Coda
Appendix: Exordium to Juan de Castellanos' "Elegía I"
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Emiro Martínez-Osorio is associate professor of Colonial Latin American Literature at York University, Canada.
