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© Imogen Choi 2022
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation
no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system,
published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast,
transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission of the copyright owner
The right of Imogen Choi to be identified as
the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with
sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
First published 2022
Tamesis, Woodbridge
ISBN 978 1 85566 347 3 hardback
ISBN 978 1 80010 358 0 ePub
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Cover image: Martin de Murúa, ‘Origen y genealogía real de los reyes Incas del Perú’ del padre mercedario Fray Martín de Murúa, also known as the Galvin Manuscript as the original belongs to Mr Sean Galvin of the Republic of Ireland, fol. 49 verso. Image reproduced by kind permission of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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    • The Epic Mirror
    • Colección Támesis
    • The Epic Mirror
    • Tamesis
    • The Epic Mirror
    • Copyright
    • Dedication
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • 1 Political Community and Just War in the City of Lima
    • 2 Republicanism, Rebellion and Empire in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana
    • 3 The Golden Mean of Colonial Governance in Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado
    • 4 Defence, Desire and Community in Juan de Miramontes Zuázola’s Armas antárticas
    • Conclusion
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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?

This title is available under the Open Access licence CC BY-NC-ND
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Imogen Choi
PublisherTamesis Books
Print publication date Feb, 2022
Print ISBN 9781855663473
EISBN 9781800103573

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