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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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Keywords
- Africa
- Alonso de Ercilla
- Americas
- Amerindian Republics
- Arauco domado
- Armas antárticas
- Asia
- Colonial Peru
- Colonial Reality
- colonialism
- Conflict Ethics
- conquests
- empire
- Epic Mirror
- Ethical Solutions
- Europe
- Globalization
- Hispanic literature
- History of Political Thought
- Irreconcilable World Views
- Juan de Miramontes Zuázola
- Just Warfare
- La Araucana
- Literature
- Maroon Kingdoms
- Peace
- Pedro de Oña
- Poetry
- Political Communities
- political community
- Search for Solutions
- Seventeenth century
- Sixteenth century
- Spanish Empire
- Spanish Settlers
- Spanish-American Writers
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- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poets
- Veterans
- Viceregal Peru
- Violent Conflicts
- Vision of Warfare
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