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03395aam a2200433 i 4500 001 C5D63606586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190112t20192019nyuab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018057983 020 $a 1604979585 020 $a 9781604979589 035 $a (OCoLC)1085579023 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d YUS $d EAU $d L2U $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-pe--- 050 00 $a PQ6088 $b .M373 2019 082 00 $a 861/.03209985 $2 23 100 1 $a Mazzotti, JoseÌ Antonio, $d 1961- $e author. 245 14 $a The creole invention of Peru : $b ethnic nation and epic poetry in colonial Lima / $c JoseÌ Antonio Mazzotti. 264 1 $a Amherst, New York : $b Cambria Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xii, 524 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambria studies in Latin American literatures and cultures series 520 $a "More than with Lima, this book deals with a specific social formation, the criollos or Creoles, particularly the benemeÌritos or descendants of conquistadors, whose study has almost always framed them as belonging to a colonial past that was supposedly erased and surpassed during the Republic. This study demonstrates that the Creoles who emerged from this situation developed strategies of survival and negotiation and many mental habits that are still present in Peru today. The first generations of Creoles created an ethnic identity that can be understood as 'national' only in the archaic and pre-Enlightenment sense of the word, without necessarily looking for independence from Spain, but with local patriotic aspirations. Thus, although this study speaks mostly about the past, it aims to explain the present and the flaws of a supposedly democratic, modern national state, still obedient to the interests of internal colonialism and the traditional Europoid ethnic prevalence in Peru. Among other merits, this book contributes to decolonial theory through the historical and cultural analysis of a dominant group"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-505) and index. 505 0 $a A creole perspective : Pedro de OnÌa between loyalty and chaos -- El dorado, paradise, and supreme sanctity in seventeenth-century Peru : a creole agenda -- "Limpieza de tinta" : ethnic nation and warrior community in Lima's epic poetry -- Fernando de Valverde and Andean monsters : mystical creolism in the pilgrimage to Copacabana -- Rodrigo de ValdeÌs between the Empire of Peru and the Latinization of the language -- Peralta, Inca Garcilaso, and the genesis of creolism in Lima fundada. 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 650 0 $a Epic poetry, Spanish $z Lima $z Lima $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Creoles in literature. 650 7 $a Creoles in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00882838 650 7 $a Epic poetry, Spanish. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914023 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 651 0 $a Lima (Peru) $x In literature. 651 7 $a Peru $z Lima. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205423 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Cambria studies in Latin American literatures and cultures series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C5D63606586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search