Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World

Two sets of related issues prompt this study: the birth of the New World in European consciousness and the rise of the Cervantine novel in Spain. The first full-length study to move beyond an inventory of Cervantes's references to the Indies--to Mexico and Peru, cannibals and tobacco, parrots and alligators--this book interprets his novels as a transatlantic, cross-cultural, and multi-linguistic achievement.

Diana de Armas Wilson is Professor of English and Renaissance Studies, University of Denver

Note to the Reader

xvi

Introduction: Novel Genres, Novel Worlds

1

(18)

The Americanist Cervantes

19

(23)

New World `Vassals'

21

(3)

Chronicles of the Indies

24

(4)

From Inventory to Interpretation

28

(2)

Imitation, Influence, Intertextuality

30

(3)

`Patience in Adversity'

33

(6)

Passage to the Indies

39

(3)

The Novel About the Novel

42

(18)

Stepfathers and Sons

43

(2)

`I am the first to have novelized...'

45

(3)

The Anglo-American Cervantes

48

(3)

Romance versus Novel

51

(2)

The Graeco-Latin Offensive

53

(2)

The Multiple Rises of the Novel

55

(1)

The Rise of the Cervantine Novel

56

(4)

The Novel as `Moletta': Cervantes and Defoe

60

(18)

Coleridgean Germs

61

(1)

Crusoe's Hispanicity

62

(6)

`Imperial Mimesis'

68

(3)

Ritual Cannibalism in Cervantes

71

(3)

Gustatory Cannibalism in Defoe

74

(2)

`Sphanished' Empires

76

(2)

Some Versions of Hybridity: Cacao and Potosi

78

(31)

Hybridity, Transculturation, Heterogeneity

78

(4)

Hybridity in the Graeco-Latin Novel

82

(3)

Importing cacao

85

(3)

Mining Potosi

88

(7)

Hybridity in Don Quixote

95

(8)

Hybridity in the Persiles

103

(3)

Hybridity as Heresy

106

(3)

`Scorpion Oil': The Books of Chivalry

109

(31)

The `Enchanted' Conquistadores

111

(2)

The `Quixotic' Conquistadores

113

(4)

Remembering the Amadis

117

(2)

Fear of Lying

119

(4)

Books and their Pathologies

123

(3)

Orellana and the New World Amazons

126

(6)

The Mimic Man

132

(3)

Generic Cleansing

135

(5)

Islands in the Mind: Utopography

140

(21)

Utopias, Eutopias, Dystopias, Heterotopias

142

(2)

Colonial Utopias

144

(2)

Utopianism on Trial

146

(4)

Englished Iberian Explorers

150

(2)

The Baratarian Dystopia

152

(2)

Islands in the Sun

154

(3)

`Old and Maimed Soldiers'

157

(4)

Jewels in the Crown: The Colonial War Epic

161

(22)

Strange Encounters

161

(2)

`The Chilean Aeneid'

163

(5)

Questions of Truth

168

(3)

Sanson's Citations

171

(3)

Shared Topoi

174

(4)

Bravehearts and Barbarians

178

(5)

Remembrance of Things Lost: Ethnohistory

183

(26)

Questions of Influence

185

(2)

Shared Histories

187

(6)

`The Herodotus of the Incas'

193

(3)

`Translating' Tahuantinsuyu

196

(4)

Cervantes's `Savage Page'

200

(4)

`Non sufficit orbis'

204

(5)

Conclusion: Women in Translation: Transila and La Malinche

209

(10)

Bibliography

219

(28)

Index

247

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