The reception of the 'discovery', conquest and colonisation of Spanish America spawned a rich imaginative literature. The case studies presented in this book represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups: literate, and in some cases erudite Europeans, and a vanquished native nobility. The former endeavoured to make sense of Spain's (and Portugal's) 'marvellous possessions' in the New World with the limited conceptual tools at their disposal, the latter to construct a colonial identity based on their shared ancestral memory while incorporating elements from the even more wondrous Hispanic culture that had overwhelmed them.
- ISBN10 0853239142
- ISBN13 9780853239147
- Publish Date 1 November 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Liverpool University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 167
- Language English