An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru - Couverture souple

Yupanqui, Titu Cusi

 
9780870818219: An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 087081821X ISBN 13 : 9780870818219
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2005

Synopsis

Available in English for the first time, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru is a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated in 1570 by Diego de Castro Titu Cusi Yupanqui - the penultimate ruler of the Inca dynasty - to a Spanish missionary and transcribed by a mestizo assistant. The resulting hybrid document offers an Inca perspective on the Spanish conquest of Peru, filtered through the monk and his scribe.

Titu Cusi tells of his father's maltreatment at the hands of the conquerors; his father's ensuing military campaigns, withdrawal, and murder; and his own succession as ruler. Although he continued to resist Spanish attempts at "pacification," Titu Cusi entertained Spanish missionaries, converted to Christianity, and then, most importantly, narrated his story of the conquest to enlighten Emperor Phillip II about the behavior of the emperor's subjects in Peru. This vivid narrative illuminates the Incan view of the Spanish invaders and offers an important account of indigenous resistance, accommodation, change, and survival in the face of the European conquest.

Informed by literary, historical, and anthropological scholarship, Bauer's introduction points out the hybrid elements of Titu Cusi's account, revealing how it merges native Andean and Spanish rhetorical and cultural practices. Supported in part by the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ralph Bauer is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures.

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Éditeur
University Press of Colorado
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
087081821X
ISBN 13 
9780870818219
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780870818073: An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0870818074 ISBN 13 :  9780870818073
Editeur : University Press of Colorado, 2005
Couverture rigide