The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945

ISBN-10: 0199399301
ISBN-13: 9780199399307
Pages: 366
Language: English
Published: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Anna Brickhouse

Description

The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before acting decisively against European settlement. The book attends specifically to the interpretive and knowledge-producing roles played by Don Luis as a translator acting not only in Native-European contact zones but in a complex arena of inter-indigenous transmission of information about the hemisphere.

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