Relatos y relaciones de Hispanoamérica colonial

Otto Olivera

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780292702899
  9780292702554
• eBook ISBN:
  9780292778894
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

This anthology of foundational sixteenth-century Spanish-language texts presents the European side of the discovery and colonization of the New World. Otto Olivera has chosen representative selections from the works of eighteen authors, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Hernán Cortés, and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Their writings present an impressive panorama of the first years of a real New World that could compete with any portrayed in European novels of chivalry or travel. To put these texts in historical context, Olivera has written an introduction that links the literature of colonization in its first century to the classical and medieval myths that helped shape Spaniards' thinking about the New World. He also provides a brief history of the discovery and conquest and a discussion of the social organization of the Spanish colonies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Índice de Materias
• Ilustraciones
• Prefacio
• Introducción
• Conquista y Colonización del Nuevo Mundo
• Organización Colonial
• Acosta, el Padre José de (1540–1600)
• Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de (¿1578?–1648)
• Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1539–1616)
• Las Casas, Bartolomé de (¿1474?–1566)
• Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1492–¿1583?)
• Cortés, Hernán (1485–1547)
• Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo (1479–1557)
• Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1539–1616)
• Benavente, Fray Toribio de (Motolinía) (¿1490?–1569)
• Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar (¿1490–1559?)
• Aguado, Fray Pedro de (¿1538?–1585+)
• Schmidel, Ulrico (¿1510–1579?)
• Fuentes y Guzmán, Francisco Antonio de (¿1642–1699?)
• Carvajal, Fray Gaspar de (¿1504?–1584)
• Cieza de León, Pedro (1520 Ó 1522–1554)
• Rodríguez Freyle, Juan (1566–¿1640?)
• Simón, Fray Pedro (¿N. 1574?)
• Suárez de Peralta, Juan (¿1537?–1590)
• Oviedo y Baños, José de (1671–1738)
• Glosario
• Ediciones Empleadas en las Selecciones
• Bibliografía
• Índice Analítico