Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World

by de Armas Wilson, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780198160052
• ISBN10: 0198160054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The first full-length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies--to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators--this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.

Author Biography

Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor of English and Renaissance Studies, University of Denver

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader	xvi
Introduction: Novel Genres, Novel Worlds	1	(18)
The Americanist Cervantes	19	(23)
New World `Vassals'	21	(3)
Chronicles of the Indies	24	(4)
From Inventory to Interpretation	28	(2)
Imitation, Influence, Intertextuality	30	(3)
`Patience in Adversity'	33	(6)
Passage to the Indies	39	(3)
The Novel About the Novel	42	(18)
Stepfathers and Sons	43	(2)
`I am the first to have novelized...'	45	(3)
The Anglo-American Cervantes	48	(3)
Romance versus Novel	51	(2)
The Graeco-Latin Offensive	53	(2)
The Multiple Rises of the Novel	55	(1)
The Rise of the Cervantine Novel	56	(4)
The Novel as `Moletta': Cervantes and Defoe	60	(18)
Coleridgean Germs	61	(1)
Crusoe's Hispanicity	62	(6)
`Imperial Mimesis'	68	(3)
Ritual Cannibalism in Cervantes	71	(3)
Gustatory Cannibalism in Defoe	74	(2)
`Sphanished' Empires	76	(2)
Some Versions of Hybridity: Cacao and Potosi	78	(31)
Hybridity, Transculturation, Heterogeneity	78	(4)
Hybridity in the Graeco-Latin Novel	82	(3)
Importing cacao	85	(3)
Mining Potosi	88	(7)
Hybridity in Don Quixote	95	(8)
Hybridity in the Persiles	103	(3)
Hybridity as Heresy	106	(3)
`Scorpion Oil': The Books of Chivalry	109	(31)
The `Enchanted' Conquistadores	111	(2)
The `Quixotic' Conquistadores	113	(4)
Remembering the Amadis	117	(2)
Fear of Lying	119	(4)
Books and their Pathologies	123	(3)
Orellana and the New World Amazons	126	(6)
The Mimic Man	132	(3)
Generic Cleansing	135	(5)
Islands in the Mind: Utopography	140	(21)
Utopias, Eutopias, Dystopias, Heterotopias	142	(2)
Colonial Utopias	144	(2)
Utopianism on Trial	146	(4)
Englished Iberian Explorers	150	(2)
The Baratarian Dystopia	152	(2)
Islands in the Sun	154	(3)
`Old and Maimed Soldiers'	157	(4)
Jewels in the Crown: The Colonial War Epic	161	(22)
Strange Encounters	161	(2)
`The Chilean Aeneid'	163	(5)
Questions of Truth	168	(3)
Sanson's Citations	171	(3)
Shared Topoi	174	(4)
Bravehearts and Barbarians	178	(5)
Remembrance of Things Lost: Ethnohistory	183	(26)
Questions of Influence	185	(2)
Shared Histories	187	(6)
`The Herodotus of the Incas'	193	(3)
`Translating' Tahuantinsuyu	196	(4)
Cervantes's `Savage Page'	200	(4)
`Non sufficit orbis'	204	(5)
Conclusion: Women in Translation: Transila and La Malinche	209	(10)
Bibliography	219	(28)
Index	247