{"product_id":"9780826214089","title":"Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the quincentenary of Columbus’s first voyage was approaching, Latin American authors vied to finish novels rewriting the conquest in order to have them published in the years surrounding 1992. Surprisingly, few of these novels attempted to reconstruct the indigenous perspective on this historical moment, focusing instead on representing the European conquerors. In \u003ci\u003eLatin American Novels of the Conquest, \u003c\/i\u003eKimberle López focuses on five of these works: Juan José Saer’s \u003ci\u003eEl entenado; \u003c\/i\u003eHerminio Martínez’s \u003ci\u003eDiario maldito de Nuño de Guzmán\u003c\/i\u003e; Abel Posse’s \u003ci\u003eEl largo atardecer del caminante\u003c\/i\u003e; and Homero Aridjis’s \u003ci\u003e1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMemorias del Nuevo Mundo. \u003c\/i\u003eShe utilizes these books to explore how their authors represented the conquest from the fictionalized perspective of the conquistador, ultimately deconstructing the rhetoric of empire through the representation of a simultaneous fascination and aversion between the colonizer and colonized.\u003cbr\u003eThe fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture—significantly, those elements that are most distinct from European culture, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice—but also feel the need to distance themselves from these “others” in order to protect their own European cultural identity. In most cases, the conquistadors themselves are represented as outsiders within the enterprise of imperialism, due to ethnic, religious, or sexual differences from the norm. This representation turns the gaze inward toward the “other” within European culture, underscoring the complex origins of Latin American cultures in the violent encounter between the Amerindians and the conquistadors.\u003cbr\u003e            By examining these issues, Lopéz’s \u003ci\u003eLatin American Novels of the Conquest\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the ways in which Latin American novelists used their literary imaginations to embody their ambivalence regarding their own transcultural heritage as children of both the colonized and the colonizer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022124433648,"sku":"9780826214089","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826214089_p0.jpg?v=1763753751","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826214089","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}