New World Encounters [Paperback]

The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco L?pez de G?mara in 1552, was the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it. Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and innovative approach to the momentous encounter.

Stephen Greenblattis The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his publications,Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance EnglandandRepresenting the English Renaissance(of which he is the editor) are available in paperback from California. His most recent book isMarvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World(1991).

CONTRIBUTORS:
Stephen Greenblatt
Margarita Zamora
Inga Clendinnen
Rolena Adorno
Anthony Pagden
Sabine MacCormack
Frank Lestringant
David Damrosch
Sara Castro-Klar?n
Louis Montrose
Mary C. Fuller
David Quint
Jeffrey Knapp
Luce Giard
Michel de Certeau

Refreshing and gratifying. . . . The epics of the Pueblos' resistance, the Aztec poetry before and after the conquest, and the ritual oftoqui oncoyshow the complexity of the means for survival developed throughout the Americas, from New Mexico to the Andes. Jaime Concha, University of California, San Diego

Many of these essays form the cutting edge of scholarship on the expansion of Europe and its cultural consequences. Visual evidence, much of it unfamiliar, is deftly integrated into the textual analysis. . . . This work is so solid, so elegantly presented, and at the same time so innovative that the book should attract considerable attention and remain inl³'