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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 September 2009
      27 May 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511519390
      9780521350877
      9780521019644
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519390
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.448kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
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    The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca princess and a Spanish conquistador. It is full of ideological tensions and apparent contradictions as Garcilaso attempts to reconcile a pagan new-world culture with the fervent Christian evangelism of the period of the discovery and conquest of America. This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach. Margarita Zamora examines the rhetorical complexities of the Comentarios, and shows how, in order to present Inca civilization to Europeans, Garcilaso turned to disciplines other than traditional historiography, and in particular to the linguistic strategies of humanist philology and hermeneutics. Professor Zamora reveals how Garcilaso's views of the Incas were shaped by the dual nature of his background, by his commitment to humanism and Christianity, by the expectations he had of his readers, and by the discursive practices of his time.

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