Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7516695
AutoresRoberto A Valdeón (0000-0003-1948-0473, Universidad de Oviedo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Páginas284
Fecha de publicación2014-10-27
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaTranslation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/btl.113
OpenAlexW649979780
Open LibraryOL30461018M
ISBN9789027258533
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas171

Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians

Administration (probate law · Ancient history · Biology · Empire · Index (typography · Interpreter · Linguistics · Political science · Translation (biology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Early Modern Spanish Literature · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Literary and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · America · colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Colonies · Language and culture · Political aspects · Spain · Translating and interpreting · Translating services · united states