Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain By Barbara Simerka
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press | ISBN: 0271022825 | edition 2003 | PDF | 224 pages | 8,8 mb
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic narratives of commercial success.
In Discourses of Empire, Barbara Simerka examines the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern
Spanish literature by focusing on this counter-epic discourse.
Simerka is drawn to literary texts that questioned or challenged the imperial project of the Hapsburg monarchy in northern Europe and the New World. She notes the variety of critical ideas across the spectrum of diplomatic, juridical, economic, theological, philosophical, and literary writings, and she argues that the presence of such competing discourses challenges the frequent assumption of a univocal, hegemonic culture in Spain during the imperial period. Simerka is especially alert to the ways in which different discourses-hegemonic, residual, emergent-coexist and compete simultaneously in the mediation of power.
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