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Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru

Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru

Paperback

Series: Llilas Special Publications

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0292705034
ISBN13: 9780292705036
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva corónica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history. She argues that Guaman Poma's work chronicles the emergence of a uniquely Latin American voice, characterized by the articulation of literary art and politics.

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