Guaman Poma

by Adorno, Rolena

• ISBN13: 9780292705036
• ISBN10: 0292705034
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

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 coroacute;nica 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. Following the initial appearance of Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, the 1990s witnessed the creation of a range of new studies that underscore the key role of the Nueva coroacute;nica y buen gobierno in facilitating our understanding of the Andean and Spanish colonial pasts. At the same time, the documentary record testifying to Guaman Poma's life and work has expanded dramatically, thanks to the publication of long-known but previously inaccessible drawings and documents. In a new, lengthy introduction to this second edition, Adorno shows how recent scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives sheds new light on Guaman Poma and his work, and she offers an important new assessment of his biography in relation to the creation of the Nueva coroacute;nica y buen gobierno.

Author Biography

Rolena Adorno is Professor of Latin American Literature at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno	xi
Guaman Poma in the Documentary Record	xi
The Production and Facsimile Reproduction of the Autograph Manuscript	xiii
Recent Advances in the Study of Guaman Poma's Visual and Verbal Art	xviii
Guaman Poma in the 1590s	xxii
The Expediente Prado Tello	xxii
Guaman Poma in the Expediente Prado Tello	xxvi
Guaman Poma versus Don Domingo Jauli and the Chachapoyas	xxix
The Conclusion of the Land-Title Litigation	xxxii
Guaman Poma in 1600: The Sentence of Exile from Huamanga	xxxvi
Chupas and the Chachapoyas in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno	xxxviii
Mestizaje in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno	xli
Guaman Poma's Biography Reconsidered	xlii
Writing and Religion: The Visita Report	li
An Anticipated Glimpse into the Artist's Studio	liv
Introduction	3	(1)
History Writing and Polemic	4	(6)
Challenging the Canon	10	(3)
Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest	13	(23)
Guaman Poma's Exploitation of Written Histories	13	(5)
Respect for History	18	(3)
The Dominican Philosophy of Conquest	21	(6)
The Dramatization of a Hypothesis	27	(5)
The Present Overwhelms the Past	32	(4)
Searching for a Heroic Conception	36	(21)
Historical Truth and Moral Vision	36	(4)
Biographies of Incas and Kings	40	(8)
The Prologue Always Comes Last	48	(3)
The Nueva Coronica as Epic Story	51	(6)
From Story to Sermon	57	(23)
Granadine Strategies	58	(4)
On Moving the Reader's Affections	62	(3)
The Literature of Conversion	65	(3)
A Theory of Cross-Cultural Communication	68	(3)
The Privileged Role of Invention	71	(1)
The Simile of Lucifer	72	(2)
The Voice and Character of the Preacher	74	(3)
The Sermon Overtakes the Story	77	(3)
Icons in Space: The Silent Orator	80	(41)
Baroque Sensibilities	81	(2)
Visual Representation and Suppression	83	(6)
The Symbolic Values of Pictorial Space	89	(10)
Lines of Authority and Hierarchy	99	(7)
Disorder on the Horizontal Axis	106	(8)
Paradigms Lost: The Reversed Diagonal and the Empty Center	114	(7)
Mediating among Many Worlds	121	(24)
Allegory, Satire, and the Sermon	122	(8)
Of Caciques and Coyas	130	(2)
Inside the Coya's Chamber	132	(3)
The Present in the Past	135	(4)
The Author as Hero	139	(1)
Guaman Poma's Final Critique	140	(5)
Notes	145	(22)
Bibliography	167	(14)
Index	181