Rolena Adorno

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca : his account, his life, and the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vacas account of the doomed Narvaez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through present-day western Texas and northern Mexico until being reunited with his countrymen near the Pacific coast. His account offers an isolated glimpse of areas of Gulf coastal Texas and northeastern Mexico that would not be visited again by Europeans for over 150 years and is the earliest authentic eyewitness description of the North American bison. Volume 1 presents the first modern edition of Cabeza de Vacas original 1542 relacion and a new, annotated, facing-page English translation. It concludes with a newly researched study of Cabeza de Vacas life. Volume 2 analyzes the narrative in discrete segments, putting into context Cabeza de Vacas descriptions of the landscape, ecology, and peoples he encountered. It also includes new research into the preparations of Narvaezs expedition in Spain and a fresh study of the lives and fates of Cabeza de Vacas three surviving companions. Volume 3 considers the literary and historical contexts of Cabeza de Vacas relacion. The literary inquiry examines the works creation, publication history, and literary and cultural legacy from the sixteenth century to the present. The historical analysis presents new studies of Spanish exploration in the Gulf of Mexico (1508-28), Spanish speculation on and exploration of the South Sea (1502-39), and Nuno de Guzmans conquest of Nueva Galicia (1530-31).

The Discursive Encounter of Spain and America: The Authority of Eyewitness Testimony in the Writing of History

WIC HEN Bernal Diaz del Castillo wrote the Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espaia, he feared, he said, that his readers would take as fictional his accounts of ninety-three days of battle because they would seem like the tales in a novel of chivalry.1 A participant in the Vazquez de Coronado expedition of I 540-I 542, Pedro de Castafieda de Na.jera, expressed a similar concern.2 For men like Bernal Diaz and Pedro Castafieda, the challenge of writing history was not only to be believed but also to be acknowledged as authoritative. The relationship between historical testimony and historiographic authority was, without a doubt, one of the central issues in the histories and relations (relaciones) written by participants in the Spanish conquests in America. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, conquistador of Mexico and encomendero of Guatemala, Alvar Nifiez Cabeza de Vaca, shipwreck survivor of Painfilo de Narvaezs expedition to conquer Florida and governor of Rio de la Plata, and Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, ex-encomendero, friar, missionary, bishop, and activist at court on behalf of the natives of America, not only made history but wrote it. Each of them recorded, refuted, and transmitted it, and in doing so, each played a key role in the process of elaborating the discursive encounter of Spain and America. The episodes of this encounter occurred not on the battlefield or at court but in the library, not against the din of battle or the stridency of conciliar debates but in the silence of reading and reflection. Neverthe-

Transatlantic encounters : Europeans and Andeans in the sixteenth century

Emphasizing the reciprocal influences of European and Andean peoples, the contributors to this volume examine the formation of a colonial society in sixteenth-century South America. Together these eight outstanding essays by specialists in anthropology, history, art history, and literary studies are a model interdisciplinary forum in Andean and colonial studies. The authors explore the Old World background to the cultural encounter; the key political, social, and economic forces at work in shaping the Andean landscape; the transformation and hybridization of Inca symbolism; and the ways in which Andeans and Europeans came to interpret the emerging colonial society.

The Archive and the Internet

The American Historical Association has been in the forefront of professional academic organizations that have seen the potential of the Internet for fomenting the production and circulation of academic scholarship and for contributing to the teaching of history. This has been no more apparent than in the AHA Workshop, “Entering the Second Stage of Online History Scholarship,” carried out in the days before the 118th annual meeting of the American Historical Association and under its auspices. In the AHA Workshop, the topic was electronic scholarly publishing: maintaining its quality, mediating its use and access, and assessing its impact on the changing shape of the profession. It took into account the perspectives of all those involved in scholarly production: authors, journal editors, department chairs, university press publishers and editors, and, at the same time, those involved in mediating its use and access at the technical level, that is, the librarians and technicians.

New studies of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno

A witness unto itself - the integrity of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma pagination survey of Copenhagen, Royal Library codicological survey of Copenhagen, Royal Library watermark in GkS 2232 4to and in the Two Martin de Murua manuscripts.

Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru

Acknowledgments Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno Guaman Poma in the Documentary Record The Production and Facsimile Reproduction of the Autograph Manuscript Recent Advances in the Study of Guaman Pomas Visual and Verbal Art Guaman Poma in the 1590s The Expediente Prado Tello Guaman Poma in the Expediente Prado Tello Guaman Poma versus Don Domingo Jauli and the Chachapoyas The Conclusion of the Land-Title Litigation Guaman Poma in 1600: The Sentence of Exile from Huamanga Chupas and the Chachapoyas in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno Mestizaje in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno Guaman Pomas Biography Reconsidered Writing and Religion: The Visita Report An Anticipated Glimpse into the Artists Studio Introduction History Writing and Polemic Challenging the Canon l. Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest Guaman Pomas Exploitation of Written Histories Respect for History The Dominican Philosophy of Conquest The Dramatization of a Hypothesis The Present Overwhelms the Past 2. Searching for a Heroic Conception Historical Truth and Moral Vision Biographies of Incas and Kings The Prologue Always Comes Last The Nueva Coronica as Epic Story 3. From Story to Sermon Granadine Strategies On Moving the Readers Affections The Literature of Conversion A Theory of Cross-Cultural Communication The Privileged Role of Invention The Simile of Lucifer The Voice and Character of the Preacher The Sermon Overtakes the Story 4. Icons in Space: The Silent Orator Baroque Sensibilities Visual Representation and Suppression The Symbolic Values of Pictorial Space Lines of Authority and Hierarchy Disorder on the Horizontal Axis Paradigms Lost: The Reversed Diagonal and the Empty Center 5. Mediating among Many Worlds Allegory, Satire, and the Sermon Of Caciques and Coyas Inside the Coyas Chamber The Present in the Past The Author as Hero Guaman Pomas Final Critique Notes Bibliography Index