Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in Hispanic Studies:
Post/Imperial Encounters
Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations
Edited by Juan E. Tazón Salces, Isabel Carrera Suárez
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. 239 pp.(Textxet 45)
ISBN: 90-420-1992-1 € 50,-/US $ 67.-
Producing the Pacific
Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606)
Mercedes Maroto Camino
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. 144 pp. + 34 ill. (Portada hispánica 18)
ISBN: 90-420-1994-8 € 40,- /US $ 54.-
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Post/Imperial Encounters
Anglo-Hispanic Cultural Relations
Edited by Juan E. Tazón Salces, Isabel Carrera Suárez
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. 239 pp.(Textxet 45)
ISBN: 90-420-1992-1 € 50,-/US $ 67.-
Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+45
Spanish and English are two of the most widely spoken languages in today’s
world, and are linked by a colonial presence in the Americas that has often
provoked turbulent relations between Britain and Spain. Despite abundant
exchanges between Spain and the British Isles, and evident contact in the
Americas, cross-cultural analyses are infrequent, and ironically language
barriers still prevail in a world the media and globalization would appear
to render borderless: English and Hispanic Studies have seldom converged,
the islands of the Caribbean continue to be separated by language, while
the new empire, the United States, has difficulty in admitting to its
Hispanic component, let alone recognizing that the name “America”
encompasses a wider continent. Post/Imperial Encounters: Anglo-Hispanic
Cultural Relations attempts to bridge this gap through articles on
literature, history and culture that concentrate primarily on three
periods: the colonial interventions of Britain and Spain in the Americas,
the Spanish Civil War and the present world, with its global culture and
new forms of colonialism.
Producing the Pacific
Maps and Narratives of Spanish Exploration (1567-1606)
Mercedes Maroto Camino
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. 144 pp. + 34 ill. (Portada hispánica 18)
ISBN: 90-420-1994-8 € 40,- /US $ 54.-
Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=Portada+18
Producing the Pacific offers the reader an interdisciplinary reading of the
maps, narratives and rituals related to the three Spanish voyages to the
South Pacific that took place between 1567 and 1606. These journeys were
led by Álvaro de Mendaña, Pedro Fernández de Quirós and Isabel Barreto, the
first woman ever to become admiral of and command a fleet.
Mercedes Maroto Camino presents a cultural analysis of these journeys and
takes issue with some established notions about the value of the past and
the way it is always rewritten from the perspective of the present. She
highlights the social, political and cultural environment in which maps and
narratives circulate, suggesting that their significance is always subject
to negotiation and transformation.
The tapestry created by the interpretation of maps, narratives and rituals
affords a view not only of the minds of the first men and women who
traversed the Pacific but also of how they saw the ocean, its islands and
their peoples. Producing the Pacific should, therefore, be of relevance to
those interested in history, voyages, colonialism, cartography,
anthropology and cultural studies.
The study of these cultural products contributes to an interpretive history
of colonialism at the same time that it challenges the beliefs and
assumptions that underscore our understanding of that history.
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