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Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World examines portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates.
Table des matières
Foreword
Josiah Blackmore
Introduction
Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz
Chapter 1: Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño”
Carrie L. Ruiz
Chapter 2: Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora
Julio Baena
Chapter 3: The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora
Elena Rodríguez-Guridi
Chapter 4: On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Natalio Ohanna
Chapter 5: The Discourse of Poverty in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios
Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla
Chapter 6: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez
Carmen Hsu
Chapter 7: The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire
Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Chapter 8: The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan
Noemí Martín Santo
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
A propos de l'auteur
CARRIE L. RUIZ is an associate professor of Spanish at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. She is the co-editor of Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies, has published work in several edited collections, including Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic Worlds, and in journals such as Letras Peninsulares, Neophilologus, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Western Humanities Review.
ELENA RODRÍGUEZ-GURIDI is an associate professor of Spanish at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She has published several book chapters and articles in various journals, including Hispanic Review, Neophilologus, and eHumanista. She is the author of ExÉgesis del “error”: Una reinterpretaciÓn de la praxis de escritura en Libro de la vida, Novelas ejemplares y DesengaÑos amorosos.
Résumé
Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the spectre of shipwreck loomed large. This volume probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture.
