Stacy Hoult

The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest

Uncanny Encounters

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the functions of animal imagery in narratives of the Conquest of the Americas, showing how depictions of animals' treatment and symbolism disrupt narratives of this period as a mutually beneficial encounter between cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781793648679
• ISBN-10: 1793648670
• Artikelnr.: 67672482

Autorenporträt

Stacy Hoult is professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Valparaiso University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. "This Is My Forest!": Indigenous Animals in Apocalypto
Chapter 2. "The Falcon Devoured Its Nest": Animals in Poetic Responses to
the Conquest of the Americas
Chapter 3. Emptying Montezuma's Zoo: The Conquest of the Animal Other in
Malinche
Chapter 4. Conquest, Cannibalism, and the Comedia: The Predatory Instinct
in El entenado
Chapter 5. Uncanny Encounters: New World Creatures in The Road to El Dorado
Chapter 6. "Jaguar Is Your Real Name": Performing Animality in Isabel
Allende's City of the Beasts
Chapter 7. Monsters at the Edge of the World: The Nonhuman Conquest in
Books for Young Children
Chapter 8. "Reconquer Your Illusion": Gamifying the Encounter at Isla
Mágica
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author