Epic Mirror
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Africa
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Alonso de Ercilla
Americas
Amerindian Republics
Arauco domado
Armas antárticas
Asia
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Colonial Peru
Colonial Reality
Colonialism
Conflict Ethics
Conquests
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Ethical Solutions
Europe
Globalization
Hispanic Literature
History of Political Thought
Irreconcilable World Views
Juan de Miramontes Zuázola
Just Warfare
La Araucana
Language_English
Literature
Maroon Kingdoms
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Peace
Pedro de Oña
Poetry
Political Communities
Political Community
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Search for Solutions
Seventeenth Century
Sixteenth Century
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Spanish Empire
Spanish Settlers
Spanish-American Writers
Veterans
Viceregal Peru
Violent Conflicts
Vision of Warfare
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- ISBN 9781855663473
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age?
Winner of the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize
The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community.
Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?
IMOGEN CHOI is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oxford.
