Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru

by Rolena Adorno

Book Overview

In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva cor=nica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need for governmental and societal reform. By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292724527
• ISBN13: 9780292724525
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.