Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World / / ed. by Elena Rodríguez-Guridi, Carrie L. Ruiz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baena, Julio,; Blackmore, Josiah,; Hsu, Carmen,; Mansilla, Fernando Rodríguez,; Martín Santo, Noemí,; Ohanna, Natalio,; Rodríguez-Guridi, Elena,; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Ana M.,; Ruiz, Carrie L.,; Santo, Noemí Martín,
• HerausgeberIn: Rodríguez-Guridi, Elena,; Ruiz, Carrie L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in María de Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño”
• 2. Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Miguel de Cervantes and Luis de Góngora
• 3. The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora
• 4. On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542) by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• 5. The Discourse of Poverty in Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios
• 6. Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in Fernán Méndez Pinto (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez
• 7. The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire
• 8. The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index