The Poetics of Empire in the Indies: Prophecy and Imitation in "La Araucana" and "Os Lusíadas"

by James Nicolopulos

In The Poetics of Empire in the Indies, James Nicolopulos investigates literary representations of sixteenth-century Iberian colonialism and imperialism by analyzing Alonso de Ercilla's "La Araucana," a narrative poem that recounts the initial phases of the Spanish conquest of Chile in the mid-sixteenth century, and Luis de Camoens's "Os Lus?adas," the epic celebration of early Portuguese maritime expansion in the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Delving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024933
• ISBN13: 9780271024936
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"