Spanish King Of The Incas by Ana Lorandi
Spanish King of the Incas tells the fascinating story of a Spanish commoner who participated in the conquest of Latin America, then changed loyalties. He declared himself a king among the Calchaqui Indians and was eventually executed for his role in an Inca rebellion in 1667.-
Anti-Literature
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The Book in Movement
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Testimonial Diffractions
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A New No-Man's-Land
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Exposing the Nation
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The Slum and the City
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The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature
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Insurgent Veins
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A Promising Past
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Queer Exposures
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Novel Distortions
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Crisis Cultures
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Narrating Narcos
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Portraits in the Andes
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Appropriating Theory
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Inca Garcilaso and Contemporary World-Making
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Ezekiel 1-24
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Modernity at Gunpoint
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Intersecting Tango
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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America
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Other South
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Bandit Narratives in Latin America
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Rethinking Community from Peru
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Transition Cinema
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The Open Invitation, The
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Defiant Geographies
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After Human Rights
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The Metamorphosis of Heads
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Nightmares of the Lettered City
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Micah
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Vernacular Latin Americanisms
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Speculative Fictions
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The Curse of Nemur
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Comics and Memory in Latin America
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The Optic of the State
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Rockin Las Americas
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Other Americans
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The Matter of Empire
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Without History
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Sentencing Canudos
From any number of criteria, this is a wonderful book. . thoroughly illuminating and recommendable.
* Itinerario *History and theory, events, imaginings, and utopian projects intersect in this account of the life and thought-world of the long-forgotten adventurer Pedro Bohorques. Spaniard by birth, Inca sovereign by aspiration, his is a fascinating story, admirably told in this beautifully researched book.
* Sabine MacCormack, University of Notre Dame *With meticulous research and skillful writing, Lorandi communicates a passion for her material that will be felt by her readers. Ann de Le—n's exemplary translation . . . makes Lorandi's scholarship on Bohorques available to an English speaking audience.
* The Americas *Praise for the Spanish edition: "The implausible exploits of Pedro Bohorques make up a fascinating tale. . . . It is a story conveying the strangeness of the colonial Latin American past while also awakening a vivid, immediate sense for it."
* Hispanic American Historical Review *Ana María Lorandi, chair of the ethnohistory program and former director of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, is author of seven books in Spanish.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822962847 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822962845 |
| Title | Spanish King Of The Incas |
| Author | Ana Lorandi |
| Series | Illuminations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2014-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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