001480662 000__ 05010nam\a22008535i\4500 001480662 001__ 1480662 001480662 003__ DE-B1597 001480662 005__ 20231026085405.0 001480662 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480662 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480662 008__ 231026t20102010nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480662 020__ $$a9780823238279 001480662 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823238279$$2doi 001480662 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)554937 001480662 035__ $$a(OCoLC)761328860 001480662 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480662 0410_ $$aeng 001480662 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480662 050_4 $$aPN441$$b.L445 2010eb 001480662 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001480662 08204 $$a809/.933587$$222 001480662 1001_ $$aLifshey, Adam,$$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480662 24510 $$aSpecters of Conquest :$$bIndigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures /$$cAdam Lifshey. 001480662 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bFordham University Press,$$c[2010] 001480662 264_4 $$c©2010 001480662 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001480662 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480662 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480662 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480662 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480662 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIntroduction --$$t1. Columbus the Haunted: The Diary of the First Voyage and William Carlos Williams's "The Discovery of the Indies" --$$t2. Indigenous Atextualizations: The Popol Vuh and I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala --$$t3. Castaway Colonialism: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Account --$$t4. Apparitions of Africa: Leoncio Evita's When the Combes Fought and José Martí's "Our America" --$$t5. Subjunctive America: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera --$$tEpilogue: The Elision Fields: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein --$$tPostscripts --$$tNotes --$$tBibliography --$$tIndex 001480662 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480662 520__ $$aThis book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing "America" as not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their own design. This imposition of foreign textualities, however dominant, is never complete because the absences of the disappeared still linger manifestly, still are present. That apparent paradox results in a haunted America, whose conquest is always partial and whose conquered are always contestatory. Readers of scholarship by transatlanticists such as Paul Gilroy and hemispherists such as Diana Taylor will find new conceptualizations here of an America that knows no geographic boundaries, whose absences are collective but not necessarily interrelated by genealogy. The five principal texts at hand - Columbus's diary of his first voyage, the Popol Vuh of the Maya-K'iche', Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Evita's Cuando los Combes luchaban (the first African novel in Spanish), and Pynchon's Mason & Dixon - are examined as foundational stories of America in their imaginings of its transatlantic commencement. Interspersed too are shorter studies of narratives by William Carlos Williams, Rigoberta Menchú, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, José Martí, Mark Knopfler (former lead singer of Dire Straits) and Gabriel García Márquez. These texts are rarely if ever read together because of their discrete provenances in time and place, yet their juxtaposition reveals how the disjunctions and ruptures that took place on the eastern and western shores of the Atlantic upon the arrival of Europeans became insinuated as recurring and resistant absences in narratives ostensibly contextualized by the Conquest.The book concludes by proposing that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the great American novel.After Specters of Conquest: Indigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures, America will never seem the same. 001480662 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480662 546__ $$aIn English. 001480662 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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