A Twice-Told Tale Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film

by Juan-Navarro, Santiago; Young, Theodore Robert,; Siegel, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780874137330
• ISBN10: 0874137330
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(9)
Editors' Note on Translations	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(18)
Part One: Recontextualizing the Encounter
Three Visions of America	29	(7)
Eduardo Subirats
Postmodernity, Orphanhood, and the Contemporary Spanish American Historical Novel	36	(11)
Viviana Plotnik
Toward a New History: Twentieth-Century Debates in Mexico on Narrating the National Past	47	(20)
Victoria E. Campos
Part Two: The Colonial Other as a Cultural Construct
Constructing Cultural Myths: Cabeza de Vaca in Contemporary Hispanic Criticism, Theater, and Film	67	(13)
Santiago Juan-Navarro
You Are What You Eat: Tropicalismo and How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman	80	(11)
Theodore Robert Young
Part Three: Sexual Difference and Textual Politics
Transhistorical and Transgeographical Seductions in Rosa Montero's Te tratare como a una reina	91	(18)
Wa-ki Fraser de Zambrano
Marina: A Woman before the Mirror of Her Time in Carlos Fuentes's Ceremonias del Alba	109	(14)
Gladys M. Ilarregui
Daimon and the Eroticism of the Conquest	123	(14)
Terry Seymour
Part Four: Mestizaje and Transculturation
From Cult to Comics: The Representation of Gonzalo Guerrero as a Cultural Hero in Mexican Popular Culture	137	(12)
RoseAnna M. Mueller
Naked in the Wilderness: The Transculturation of Cabeza de Vaca in Abel Posse's El largo atardecer del caminante	149	(20)
Kimberle S. Lopez
Part Five: The Reinvention of the Past through Apocryphal Chronicles
Penetrating Texts: Testimonial Pseudo-Chronicle in La noche oscura del Nino Aviles by Edgardo Rodriguez Julia Seen from Siguenza y Gongora's Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez	169	(24)
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Ana Lydia Vega's Falsas cronicas del Sur: Reconstruction and Revision of Puerto Rico's Past	193	(17)
Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin
Cervantes in America: Between New World Chronicle and Chivalric Romance	210	(17)
Luis Correa-Diaz
Part Six: The ``Discoverers'' Rediscovered
The Americanization of Christopher Columbus in the Works of William Carlos Williams and Alejo Carpentier	227	(16)
Molly Metherd
``This Miraculous Lie'': Lope de Aguirre and the Search for El Dorado in the Latin American Historical Novel	243	(10)
Bart L. Lewis
Part Seven: Parody and the Carnivalization of History
A Fool's Point of View: Parody, Laughter, and the History of the Discovery in Maluco: La novela de los descubridores by Napoleon Baccino Ponce de Leon	253	(22)
Magdalena Perkowska-Alvarez
La isla amarilla: (Re)vision and Subversion of the Discovery	275	(11)
Susan P. Berardini
Notes on Contributors	286	(6)
Index	292