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Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolom� de Las Casas dedicated his Brev�sima Relaci�n de la Destruici�n de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brev�sima Relaci�n catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.
Review
Franklin Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, and the author of The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Oxford) and Slave Societies of the Caribbean (Macmillan).Andrew Hurley is Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, and the award-winning translator of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction including the Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (Viking) and several novels by Reinaldo Arenas.
Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that five hundred years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring the Brev�sima Relaci�n to the reader, it brings the reader to the Brev�sima Relaci�n--not as it is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of Related Readings offer further aids to a fresh appreciation of this foundational historical and literary work of the New World and European engagement with it. This is a splendid new translation of Brev�sima Relaci�n, the famous denunciation of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, written by Dominican friar Bartolom� de Las Casas (1483-1566). . . . The Hackett edition of Brev�sima Relaci�n . . . has a lot to offer to undergraduates. . . . Knight's introduction to the text makes in fact for a compelling read. . . . Together with Knight's ample annotations, which refer students to the most up-to-date secondary literature, it makes for a wonderful introduction to the history of Europe's expansion into the Western Hemisphere." --Martine van Ittersum, Journal of Early Modern History
Las Casas comes alive in this version. The translator turns Las Casas' rough and rambling style, which has thwarted previous translators, into the Biblical tirade that Las Casas intended; the rambling becomes rumbling with these sonorous word choices. This will doubtless become the standard translation of the Brev�sima Relaci�n. --David Frye, University of Michigan
This is by far the best modern edition of the classic account of Las Casas. An excellent Introduction provides the background of the friar and the debates he engendered. Of equal value are the appendices with the royal legislation for protection of the conquered Amerindians, that are the true legacy of his polemical treatises. Excerpts from eyewitnesses of the conquest of Mexico provide students with food for thought and discussion. This is an excellent classroom edition that should be widely used." --Noble David Cook, author of Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies, with Related Texts
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolom� de Las Casas dedicated his Brev�sima Relaci�n de la Destruici�n de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brev�sima Relaci�n catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the kings colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain."
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres Committed by the Popish Spanish Pa
Bartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonization that was ever written. Las Casas chronicled gory details of Spanish mistreatment of the native American Indians, an abuse which led to entire communities being wiped out. This account eventually provoked the Spanish crown to enact laws intended to protect the Indians, and earned Bartolome de las Casas the title 'Defender of the Indians.'
Bartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonization that was ever written."
Bartolomé de Las Casas
The Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas (1485-1566) was a prominent chronicler of the early Spanish conquest of the Americas, a noted protector of the American Indians, and arguably the most significant figure in the early Spanish Empire after Christopher Columbus. Following an epiphany in 1514, Las Casas fought the Spanish control of the Indies for the rest of his life, writing vividly about the brutality of the Spanish conquistadors. Once a settler and exploiter of the American Indians, he became their defender, breaking ground for the modern human rights movement. Las Casas brought his understanding of Christian scripture to the forefront in his defense of the Indians, challenging the premise that the Indians of the New World were any less civilized or capable of practicing Christianity than Europeans. Bartolomé de las Casas: A Biography is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Las Casas' life in a generation.
The close relationship between Las Casas and the sovereigns was underscored by something that did not occur: Charles did not raise ... 1992); and An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts , ed."
Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom
A critical resource for inclusive teaching in the Spanish classroom Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom invites teachers to adjust their curricula to create a more inclusive classroom. Anne Fountain provides teachers with key historical and cultural information about Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and explains how to incorporate relevant resources into their curricula using a social justice lens. This book begins with an overview of the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to language teaching, giving practical ideas that are tied to language learning standards. Each chapter finishes with a list for further reading, inviting teachers to dig deeper. The book ends with a set of ten conclusions and an extensive list of resources organized by topic to help teachers find accurate information about Indigenous America to enrich their teaching. Fountain includes illustrations that relate directly to teaching ideas. Hard-to-find resources and concrete teaching ideas arranged by level as well as a glossary of important terms make this book an essential resource for all Spanish language teachers.
Bartolomé de las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies with Related Texts , ed . and intro . Franklin W. Knight , trans . Andrew Hurley ( Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company , 2003 ) , 1 . 8."
Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
"This is a reader devoted to the life and writings of Bartolomé de las Casas (1485-1566), and the effects of his legacy on the age of the Encounter when Europeans-principally but not exclusively Spaniards-conquered the Americas. Las Casas is arguably the most important figure of the Encounter Age after Christopher Columbus, and Las Casas is well known to those who teach Western civilization, various survey histories of Spain and Latin America, and Atlantic history. He is known principally as the author of the "Black Legend," as well as the "protector" of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked Biblical scripture to interpret what was right and wrong in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus's first voyage for posterity through his History of the Indies, for the journal of that voyage was lost. He was also an innovator in political theory and a proto-ethnographer, and his contributions in geography, philosophy, and literature are no less significant. That he was also crusty, self-righteous, judgmental, given to gross exaggerations, and not a very loving Christian adds the very human dimension of failure to his character. This reader provides the most wide-ranging, and concise anthology of Las Casas' writings, in translation, ever made available. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his writings on political philosophy and law, which are largely unavailable. Many of these selections have never been translated into English and they mostly address these under-appreciated aspects of his thought. As such, this volume presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is given credit. The introduction puts these writings into a synthetic whole by biographically tracing his indigenous advocacy throughout his career"--
Bartolomé de las Casas in History: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois ... Las Casas, Bartolomé de. An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts ."
Invading Guatemala
The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts
A member of the Dominican order, Las Casas traveled and preached extensively in the new Spanish colonies in the Caribbean ... in Bartolomé de Las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts , ..."
A Stumbling Block
This book presents the work and thought of Bartolome de Las Casas, taking into account his hunger and thirst for justice for the peoples of the New World, discovered and dominated by the Spanish. Las Casas defends the right of Amerindian peoples to live in freedom, to resist Spanish rule, to respect and preserve their own cultures, to respect their religiosity and to preserve after conversion the elements compatible with Christianity, to reject a Christianity preached in the shadow of arms. The defence of these rights and of the unity and equality of the human family makes Bartholomew de las Casas a "forerunner" both of the Second Vatican Council and of the post-colonial and globalized world of our time. Bartolome de Las Casas has become an important figure in the history of the church and of humanity and in the history of literature and of art. Las Casas, who called himself 'a Christian, a religious, a bishop, a Spaniard' (Las Casas, In Defense, 21), - note the sequence is above all else, however, a 'prophet' in the biblical sense of the word: one called by God who persistently-conveniently as well as inconveniently-reminds his contemporaries of the demands of the word of God in the face of the injustice which causes the suffering and misery of one's neighbor. Many such witnesses have been officially recognized and canonized by the church. Others, though, have been covered with the cloak of slander to this day; they are still waiting for us to muster the courage to pull off this cloak and to incorporate their irksome witness into the prophetic tradition of the Church.
The only exceptions are the abbreviations for Obras completas (OC) and Werkauswahl (WA). Primary Sources Las Casas , Bartolomé de . _____. An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies : With Related Texts . Trans."
The Protestant Reformation and World Christianity
The sixteenth-century Reformation in all its forms and expressions sought nothing less than the transformation of the Christian faith. Five hundred years later, in today's context of world Christianity, the transformation continues. In this volume, editor Dale Irvin draws together a variety of international Christian perspectives that open up new understandings of the Reformation. In six chapters, contributors offer general discussions and case studies of the effects of the Protestant Reformation on global communities from the sixteenth century to the present. Together, these essays encourage a reading and interpretation of the Reformation that will aid in the further transformation of Christianity today. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Jews and Muslims in Europe: Exorcising Prejudice against the Other Charles Amjad-Ali 2. Spaniards in the Americas: Las Casas among the Reformers Joel Morales Cruz 3. Women from Then to Now: A Commitment to Mutuality and Literacy Rebecca A. Giselbrecht 4. The Global South: The Synod of Dort on Baptizing the "Ethnics" David D. Daniels 5. The Protestant Reformations in Asia: A Blessing or a Curse? Peter C. Phan 6. The Modern Era: Contemporary Challenges in Light of the Reformation Vladimir Latinovic
Indians there in 1513 was seared into his memory.40 He recalled it years later: Once, some Indians were coming out to ... Bartolomé de Las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies with Related Texts , trans."
¡Presente!
In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.
Grandin , Greg . The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America . New York: Metropolitan, 2019. Grandin , Greg . “This Mass Grave Isn't the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For.” The Nation, November 17, ..."
Blood in the Fields
"Examines the life and martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador through the lens of agrarian reform, arguing that his advocacy for the just distribution of land drew heavily on Catholic Social Doctrine and its conviction that creation is a common gift"--
Berry , Wendell . Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays . New York: Pantheon, 1993. ——— . “Private Property and the Common Wealth.” In Another Turn of the Crank : Essays , by Wendell Berry , 46–63. Berkeley, Calif."
Potential History
A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.
It is a graveyard of political life that insists that time is a linear temporality: again, an imperial tautology. ... 26 Bartolomé de Las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies —With Related Texts , ..."
Relatuhedron
A journey of new routes of healing with/by Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants is shared under the Two Eyed-Seeing Perspective of Elder Albert Marshall. The Universal Human Right of Indigenous self-determination and Relationality are the togetherness presented in a “mangrove tree” that lives between salty and sweet waters emerging as a protective place of rich ecosystems. The relatuhedron (shapes of relationality) a co-construction of a home, a Wigwam, Long House, Maloca, Ue, crystalizes knowledge and practices in the process of individual and community healing and cultural transactions. A set of neologisms such as relatuhedron, pedagomiologies, and social grammars, is proposed to challenge our views of mental health, healing, cultural transactions, stereotypes, recovery, and public policy and include simplicities and complexities required to support Indigenous well-being. It is a “machine of possibilities” for students and professionals working with/by and for Indigenous communities. In this book healing is presented as a process through scholarly practice and reflection. Healing is a process of emergence of meaning by improving relationality with the self, nature and others, in a practical approach to socio-cultural transformations. In sum, healing is based on individual and community processes both honoring and respective Indigenous knowledge and scientific research to create endless opportunities for well-being. This book presents healing as a process of growth, a complex, dynamic and evolutive journey of transforming how we stablish and maintain relationships with the self, nature and others inside of our cultural negotiations.
From Bartolome de las Casas . An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts , ed. Franklin W. Knight, & tr. Andrew Hurley (Hackett Publi, Co, 2003) pp. 2–3, 6–8. Derrida, J. (2016). Of Grammatology."
Colonizing Paradise
"Dillman elegantly explores the evolution of English and British perceptions of the landscape of the West Indies and how their representations were used to support the development of the islands they colonized"--
Casas , Bartolomé de las . An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts . Edited by Franklin W Knight. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Indianapolis, Ind: Hackett Pub, 2003. ———. History of the Indies ."
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus?s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America?s indigenous peoples continued to be captured and forced to work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony-building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians. ø Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery?s victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.
For Las Casas, see Bartolomé de Las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies with Related Texts , ed. with an introduction by Franklin W. Knight, trans. Andrew Hurley (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company ..."
Performance in the Zócalo
For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zócalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. During the period of colonial rule, performances designed to ensure loyalty to the Spanish monarchy were staged there, but over time, these displays gave way to staged demonstrations of resistance. Today, the Zócalo is a site for both official government-sponsored celebrations and performances that challenge the state. Performance in the Zócalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there. A saying in Mexico City is “quien domina el centro, domina el país” (whoever dominates the center, dominates the country) as the Zócalo continues to act as the performative embodiment of Mexican society. This book highlights how particular performances build upon each other by recycling past architectures and performative practices for new purposes. Ana Martínez discusses the singular role of collective memory in creating meaning through space and landmarks, providing a new perspective and further insight into the problem of Mexico’s relationship with its own past. Rather than merely describe the commemorations, she traces the relationship between space and the invention of a Mexican imaginary. She also explores how indigenous communities, Mexico’s alienated subalterns, performed as exploited objects, exotic characters, and subjects with agency. The book’s dual purposes are to examine the Zócalo as Mexico’s central site of performance and to unmask, without homogenizing, the official discourse regarding Mexico’s natives. This book will be of interest for students and scholars in theater studies, Mexican Studies, Cultural Geography, Latinx and Latin American Studies.
... de Sepúlveda's 1544 treatise The Second Democrate , or Reasons That Justify War against the Indians , see Franklin W. Wright , introduction to Bartolomé de las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies ..."
Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture
Their empire unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs were poised on the brink of a golden age, when the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Colin MacLachlan explains why Mexico is culturally Mestizo while ethnically Indian and why Mexicans remain orphaned from their indigenous heritage—the adopted children of European history.
Franklin W. Knight, in An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies (with Related Text ), by Bartolomé de las Casas (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003), 89–90. 13. Heinrich Mitteis, The State in the Middle Ages: A Comparative ..."
Translating Religion
A peer-reviewed original collection of essays on how faith and religious traditions have been and are being translated, whether by language, culture, context, migration, or many other factors.
12This essay by Las Casas is found in Bartolomé de Las Casas : The Only Way, ed. by Helen Rand Parish, trans. ... 13Bartolomé de Las Casas, An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts , ed."
The Franciscan Invention of the New World
This book examines the story of the ‘discovery of America’ through the prism of the history of the Franciscans, a socio-religious movement with a unique doctrine of voluntary poverty. The Franciscans rapidly developed global dimensions, but their often paradoxical relationships with poverty and power offer an alternate account of global history. Through this lens, Julia McClure offers a deeper history of colonialism, not only by extending its chronology, but also by exploring the powerful role of ambivalence in the emergence of colonial regimes. Other topics discussed include the legal history of property, the complexity and politics of global knowledge networks, the early (and neglected) history of the Near Atlantic, and the transatlantic inquisition, mysticism, apocalypticism, and religious imaginations of place.
In defense of the Indians: The defense of the most reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas , of the order of ... An account , much abbreviated , of the destruction of the Indies , with related texts , edited with an introduction by ..."
A New History of the Humanities
Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.
The discovery of the New World and unknown peoples added to the scepticism about the possibility of a linear history from ... 94 Bartolomé de Las Casas , An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies With Related Texts , ..."
Colonial Latin American Historical Review
An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies and Related Texts . By Bartolomé de Las Casas . Edited by Franklin W. Knight . Translated by Andrew Hurley . ( Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company , 2003."
Suárez
"Francisco Suarez (1546-1617) is one of the great anomalies in the history of thought: one thinker functioning in two contrary roles, each reversing the other. The role of being, on the one hand, the consummator of one phase of philosophical speculation, the realist and scholastic; and, on the other, the initiator (though an unwitting one) of another phase, the idealist, modern, and nihilist. This shift from realism to idealism was crucial in Western philosophy; it inaugurated an era of irrepressible, if chaotic, creativity."--BOOK JACKET.
Las Casas asserted that the natives could if they wished accept the suzerainty of the Spanish monarch , after which they ... Bartolomé de las Casas . An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies with Related Texts ."
Program of the ... Annual Meeting
... Directions in Women's Studies Silence on the Mountain Stories of Terror , Betrayal , and Forgetting in Guatemala DANIEL WILKINSON 392 pages , 14 b & w photos , paper $ 19.95 American Encounters / Global Interactions Catarino Garza's ..."
Lay it Down
Bartolomé de las Casas famously denounced the ruthless exploitation of Amerindian peoples within four years of becoming ... An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies : With Related Texts ( Indianapolis : Hackett ..."
Program of the Annual Meeting - American Historical Association
Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.
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Common Routes
From the first introduction of European influences to the present day, St. Domingue and Louisiana have been bound together by culture, economy and history. Common Routes: St. Domingue--Louisiana, a groundbreaking exhibition at the New Orleans Collection, illuminates this shared heritage. The exhibition catalogue features essays by noted scholars and illustrations that trace Louisiana's ties to the island of Hispaniola, the colony of St. Domingue and the nation of Haiti. At that cultural intersection are the stories of individuals whose search for fortune and freedom spans years and oceans--among them, the thousands of emigres who settled in Louisiana in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and whose civic and artistic contributions imbued New Orleans with its distinctive, and enduring, cultural character.
Casas , Bartolomé de las . An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , with Related Texts . Edited by Franklin W. Knight ; translated by Andrew Hurley . Indianapolis : Hackett , 2003 . Cauna , Jacques ."
Literature in Translation
In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through works in translation, students in our mostly monolingual society are at last becoming acquainted with the multilingual and multicultural world in which they will live and work. Many instructors have expanded their reach to teach texts that originate from across the globe. Unfortunately, literature in English translation is frequently taught as if it had been written in English, and students are not made familiar with the cultural, linguistic, and literary context in which that literature was produced. As a result, they submit what they read to their own cultural expectations; they do not read in translation and do not reap the benefits of intercultural communication. Here a true challenge arises for an instructor. Books in translation seldom contain introductory information about the mediation that translation implies or the stakes involved in the transfer of cultural information. Instructors are often left to find their own material about the author or the culture of the source text. Lacking the appropriate pedagogical tools, they struggle to provide information about either the original work or about translation itself, and they might feel uneasy about teaching material for which they lack adequate preparation. Consequently, they restrict themselves to well-known works in translation or works from other countries originally written in English. Literature in Translation: Teaching Issues and Reading Practices squarely addresses this pedagogical lack. The book's sixteen essays provide for instructors a context in which to teach works from a variety of languages and cultures in ways that highlight the effects of linguistic and cultural transfers.
A A good place to begin is with Andrew Hurley's note on his translation of An Account , Much Abbreviated , of the Destruction of the Indies , in which he argues that the distance between today's reader and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas is ..."
Acta Comeniana 20-21
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Annotated Books Received
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