"La Christiada" in Its Colonial Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9863027 |
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| Authors | Galen B Yorba-Gray (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4141165 |
| OpenAlex | W2334482560 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Fray Diego de Hojeda's La Christiada, an epic recasting of the Passion of Christ composed in colonial Peru, is primarily a Spanish work with universal pretensions, but its colonial context also points to the beginnings of Spanish American self-awareness. Although reference to America it slight in the poem, the author's ideological environment of transplanted Spaniard, Dominican, laborer among lhe poor, ascetic, etc., provides valuable contextualization for a fuller understanding of the interplay of his life and poetic work. It is not an either/or question of colony or Spain, but a dialogical both/and correlation. Hojedas monumental epic occupies a distinctive spot in the cultural and spiritual heritage of the Spanish-speaking world. Examination of the colonial context of both poem and poet helps to situate the literary event that is La Christiada
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Early Modern Spanish Literature · History · Latin American history and culture
| Highly cited | No |
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