New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas Series) - Softcover

Fuerst, James W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822965402 ISBN 13: 9780822965404

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018

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New World Postcolonial presents the first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. It is also among a handful of studies to explore the Commentaries as a "mestizo rhetoric," written to subtly address both native Andean readers and Hispano-Europeans. As Fuerst demonstrates, by blending both Andean and European discourses to represent Incan history, Garcilaso further proposed restoring indigenous sovereignty by adopting a new mestizo governing body via the political alliance and intermarriage of encomenderos (estate holders) and Incas.  This policy extended to education, missionary practices, and others, reflecting Garcilaso's hopes of forming a peaceful coexistence among native Andeans, mestizos, and first generation Spaniards.
 

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James W. Fuerst is an assistant professor of writing, chair of writing, and co-chair of literary studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School University.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822965402
• ISBN 13: 9780822965404
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
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