Robert Richmond Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 971565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Richmond Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Richmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic
This chapter examines the unique experience of several people who appealed to Spanish courts for their freedom, and based their defense on the argument that native vassals (vasallos) of the Spanish Crown were naturally free and could not be enslaved. In every case, the Asian plaintiffs identified themselves as Indios, a term that generally denoted the indigenous people of Spain's overseas empire. These individuals availed themselves of a legal tr…
Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados; The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation
Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados is the first comprehensive historical survey in English of alumbradismo, a heresy which flourished in Spain during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.Alastair Hamilton traces the develop- ment of alumbradismo, irom its initial clash with the Inquisition of Toledo in the 1520s, to the trials of the alumbrados in Llerena in the 1580s and those of Seville in the 1620s.He bases …
Cambodia in the Writings of Diego Aduarte and Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio
This essay focuses on representations of Cambodia in the early-seventeenth-century writings of the Dominican clerics, Diego Aduarte and Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio. Aduarte narrates his participation in the first Spanish expedition to Cambodia in 1596, which resulted in the murder of the Cambodian king, Rām I. San Antonio, who never visited Cambodia, recounts the same event. Both writers comment on various aspects of Cambodian life, including …
Reading the Spanish past: Library fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's recent blockbuster, La sombra del viento (2002), forms part of a long tradition of Spanish-language books about books, beginning with Cervantes and culminating in the modern per
The Middle Kingdom through Spanish Eyes: Depictions of China in the Writings of Juan González de Mendoza and Domingo Fernández Navarrete
The Spanish clergymen Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and Domingo Fernandez Navarrete are two of the most significant western commentators on China from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Both are considered modern historians, though they exalt Chinese civilisation while simultaneously seeking to replace Chinese religious practice with Christianity. Mendoza, author of one of the most widely read treatises on China of all time, favours a peaceful p…
They Dream Not of Angels but of Men; Homoeroticism, Gender, and Race in Latin American Autobiography
In a pioneering study of male homoeroticism and gay-male identity in Latin American autobiographical writings, Robert Ellis draws upon a diverse group of writers who situate the homoerotic in a variety of contexts, highlighting the ways in which not only male homoeroticism but also male homoerotic practice and gay-male identity are affected by Latin American conceptions of masculinity and femininity, race, and social class. The first book to take…
The Best Thus Far Discovered: The Japanese in the Letters of Francisco Xavier
On August 15, 1549, Francisco Xavier, along with two other Spanish Jesuits, three Japanese converts, and two servants, arrived in the harbor of Kagoshima on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Thus, he launched a brief period of missionary activity that climaxed in 1597 with the crucifixion of six Spanish Franciscans and twenty Japanese Christians, and ended in the early seventeenth century with the expulsion of all foreign missionaries and the closur…
Reinaldo Arenas
The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation in Contemporary Spanish Autobiography
The Inscription of Masculinity and Whiteness in the Autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa
This essay examines the interconnectedness of whiteness and heterosexual masculinity in the autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, EI pez en el agua [ A Fish in the Water ]. In this text Vargas Llosa critiques Peruvian racism and machismo, and in his self‐portrait attempts to distance himself from the categories of whiteness and masculinity. But in so doing he in fact obscures the workings of race and gender not only in Peruvian society but in his …
The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca
(1995). The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 126-144
Camping it up in the Francoist Camp: Reflections on and in Ante el espejo of Luis Antonio de Villena
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
The Tragic Pursuit of Being: Unamuno and Sartre
The Tragic Pursuit of Being. Unamuno and Sartre
The Tragic Pursuit of Being, Unamuno and Sartre
The Best Thus Far Discovered: The Japanese in the Letters of Francisco Xavier
On August 15, 1549, Francisco Xavier, along with two other Spanish Jesuits, three Japanese converts, and two servants, arrived in the harbor of Kagoshima on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Thus, he launched a brief period of missionary activity that climaxed in 1597 with the crucifixion of six Spanish Franciscans and twenty Japanese Christians, and ended in the early seventeenth century with the expulsion of all foreign missionaries and the closur…
The Middle Kingdom through Spanish Eyes: Depictions of China in the Writings of Juan González de Mendoza and Domingo Fernández Navarrete
The Spanish clergymen Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and Domingo Fernandez Navarrete are two of the most significant western commentators on China from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Both are considered modern historians, though they exalt Chinese civilisation while simultaneously seeking to replace Chinese religious practice with Christianity. Mendoza, author of one of the most widely read treatises on China of all time, favours a peaceful p…
Reading the Spanish past: Library fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's recent blockbuster, La sombra del viento (2002), forms part of a long tradition of Spanish-language books about books, beginning with Cervantes and culminating in the modern per
The Tragic Pursuit of Being, Unamuno and Sartre
The Tragic Pursuit of Being: Unamuno and Sartre
The Tragic Pursuit of Being. Unamuno and Sartre
The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca
(1995). The Gay Lifewriting of Reinaldo Arenas: Antes que anochezca. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 10, Terms of Identity: Essays on the Theoretical Terminology of Lifewriting, pp. 126-144
Camping it up in the Francoist Camp: Reflections on and in Ante el espejo of Luis Antonio de Villena
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
The Inscription of Masculinity and Whiteness in the Autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa
This essay examines the interconnectedness of whiteness and heterosexual masculinity in the autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, EI pez en el agua [ A Fish in the Water ]. In this text Vargas Llosa critiques Peruvian racism and machismo, and in his self‐portrait attempts to distance himself from the categories of whiteness and masculinity. But in so doing he in fact obscures the workings of race and gender not only in Peruvian society but in his …
The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation in Contemporary Spanish Autobiography
Reinaldo Arenas
The Best Thus Far Discovered: The Japanese in the Letters of Francisco Xavier
On August 15, 1549, Francisco Xavier, along with two other Spanish Jesuits, three Japanese converts, and two servants, arrived in the harbor of Kagoshima on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Thus, he launched a brief period of missionary activity that climaxed in 1597 with the crucifixion of six Spanish Franciscans and twenty Japanese Christians, and ended in the early seventeenth century with the expulsion of all foreign missionaries and the closur…
They Dream Not of Angels but of Men; Homoeroticism, Gender, and Race in Latin American Autobiography
In a pioneering study of male homoeroticism and gay-male identity in Latin American autobiographical writings, Robert Ellis draws upon a diverse group of writers who situate the homoerotic in a variety of contexts, highlighting the ways in which not only male homoeroticism but also male homoerotic practice and gay-male identity are affected by Latin American conceptions of masculinity and femininity, race, and social class. The first book to take…
Reading the Spanish past: Library fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's La sombra del viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's recent blockbuster, La sombra del viento (2002), forms part of a long tradition of Spanish-language books about books, beginning with Cervantes and culminating in the modern per
The Middle Kingdom through Spanish Eyes: Depictions of China in the Writings of Juan González de Mendoza and Domingo Fernández Navarrete
The Spanish clergymen Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and Domingo Fernandez Navarrete are two of the most significant western commentators on China from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Both are considered modern historians, though they exalt Chinese civilisation while simultaneously seeking to replace Chinese religious practice with Christianity. Mendoza, author of one of the most widely read treatises on China of all time, favours a peaceful p…
Cambodia in the Writings of Diego Aduarte and Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio
This essay focuses on representations of Cambodia in the early-seventeenth-century writings of the Dominican clerics, Diego Aduarte and Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio. Aduarte narrates his participation in the first Spanish expedition to Cambodia in 1596, which resulted in the murder of the Cambodian king, Rām I. San Antonio, who never visited Cambodia, recounts the same event. Both writers comment on various aspects of Cambodian life, including …
Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados; The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation
Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados is the first comprehensive historical survey in English of alumbradismo, a heresy which flourished in Spain during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.Alastair Hamilton traces the develop- ment of alumbradismo, irom its initial clash with the Inquisition of Toledo in the 1520s, to the trials of the alumbrados in Llerena in the 1580s and those of Seville in the 1620s.He bases …
Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic
This chapter examines the unique experience of several people who appealed to Spanish courts for their freedom, and based their defense on the argument that native vassals (vasallos) of the Spanish Crown were naturally free and could not be enslaved. In every case, the Asian plaintiffs identified themselves as Indios, a term that generally denoted the indigenous people of Spain's overseas empire. These individuals availed themselves of a legal tr…
They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
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