León Hebreo's Diálogos de amor as a gateway to Inca Garcilaso's opus / Damian Bacich -- At the crossroads of the early modern world : La Florida del Inca in the hemispheric American Studies classroom / Ralph Bauer -- Inca Garcilaso reads Cabezza de Vaca / Rolena Adorno -- Teaching the picaresque with the Historia general del Perú / Sara L. Lehman -- Natural history and the Comentarios reales / Yarí Pérez Marin -- Inca Garcilaso and transnational identity in colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial contexts / Michael J. Horswell -- Writing as an Indian : teaching the other Inca Garcilaso and his native sources / Rocío Quispe-Agnoli -- Teaching Inca Garcilaso in the context of indigenous writing, thought, and culture / Isabel Dulfano -- Weaving gender into the Royal commentaries / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- Inca Garcilaso on women / Sara V. Guengerich -- Inca Garcilaso and the power of language / Margarita Zamora -- Incan resonances in Inca Garcilaso's prose / José Antonio Mazzotti -- Incomparable cosmologies : character and motive in the march to Cajamarca / Sara Castro-Klarén -- teaching the Royal commentaries with visual representations of the exploration, conquest, and colonization of Peru / Giovanna Montenegro -- Learning from mistakes : interpretation in the Comentarios reales / Sarah H. Beckford -- The Andes in Appalachia : Inca Garcilaso in a hemispheric curriculum / Kimberly Borchard -- Inca mummies and mountaintop sacrifice : ethnohistory and the Comentarios reales / George Antony Thomas -- Religion in the Royal commentaries / James W. Fuerst -- "Between the tree of memory and the bark of history" : revisiting Inca Garcilaso's sites of memory / Dinorah Cortés-Vélez -- Casting Inca Garcilaso, comparatively speaking / Nhora Lucía Serrano.
Summary:
"This volume provides guidance on the translations of Garcilaso's writings and on the scholarly reception of his ideas. Instructors will discover ideas for teaching Garcilaso's works in relation to indigenous thought, European historiography, natural history, indigenous religion and Christianity, and Incan material culture. In essays informed by postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, scholars draw connections between Garcilaso's writings and contemporary issues like migration, multiculturalism, and indigenous rights"-- Publisher website. "Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnational identity, interdisciplinarity, influence on modern historians and ethnographers, the Quechua language, Incan social structures, Incan myth and religion, translation, natural history, indigenous writing and culture, the picaresque, genre, and historiography"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 169
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