Epics of Empire and Frontier: Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagra as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers

by Celia López-Chávez

Book Overview

First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagr , Mexican-born captain under Juan de O ate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva M xico, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In Epics of Empire and Frontier-a deft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080619412X
• ISBN13: 9780806194127
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"