The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610. By Genaro M. Padilla
Inserted within the ‘Pasó por aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage’ Padilla's work revisits the epic poem of Gaspar de Villagrá, a Spanish soldier whose verses, chronicling the mestizo Juan de Oñate's colonial expedition and settlement in New Mexico up to the cruel battle at...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Literature and theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-237 |
| Review of: | The daring flight of my pen (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010) (Castaño, Victoria Ríos)
The daring flight of my pen (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010) (Castaño, Victoria Ríos) The daring flight of my pen (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010) (Castaño, Victoria Ríos) |
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| Summary: | Inserted within the ‘Pasó por aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage’ Padilla's work revisits the epic poem of Gaspar de Villagrá, a Spanish soldier whose verses, chronicling the mestizo Juan de Oñate's colonial expedition and settlement in New Mexico up to the cruel battle at Acoma in 1599, have mostly gained him the title of historian. Departing from studies assessing Villagrá's lack of literary merit, which have closed further discussion on the intention of his poem, Padilla vindicates Villagrá's poetic appropriation of the epic genre and indebtedness to Homer's Odyssey, Livy's Annals and, above all, Virgil's Aeneid in order to identify how ‘historical consciousness colludes with epic invention [and] figurative language masks political chagrin’ (p. 7). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr040 |