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Title:

Shipwreck in the early modern Hispanic world / edited by Carrie L. Ruiz, Elena Rodríguez-Guridi ; foreword by Josiah Blackmore.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

viii, 164 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Shipwrecks in literature.
Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Spanish literature--Social aspects--16th century.
Spanish literature--Social aspects--17th century.
Shipwrecks in literature.
Spanish literature--Classical period.
Spanish literature--Social aspects.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Essays.

Other Authors:

Ruiz, Carrie L., editor.
Rodríguez-Guridi, Elena, editor.
Blackmore, Josiah, 1959- writer of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword / Josiah Blackmore -- Introduction / Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz -- Turbulent waters : shipwreck in Zayas's "Tarde llega el desengaño" / Carrie L. Ruiz -- Two small and two large imperial shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora / Julio Baena -- The reader as castaway : problematics of reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora / Elena Rodríguez-Guridi -- On moral truth and the controversy over the Amerindians : the Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Natalio Ohanna -- The discourse of poverty in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla -- Shipwreck, exile, and political critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez / Carmen Hsu -- The Manila galleon shipwrecks : writing crisis and decline in the Spanish global empire / Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez -- The shipwreck of the Manila galleon San Felipe in seventeenth-century histories and accounts on Japan / Noemí Martín Santo.

Summary:

"Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Campos Ibéricos : Bucknell studies in Iberian literatures and cultures

ISBN:

1684483719
9781684483716
1684483700
9781684483709

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1245472256

LCCN:

2021017550

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)