By Andrés Ajens (auth.)
This choice of essays strains the emergence of the Western poem from the viewpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, fairly, the Latin American culture. in contrast to works extending Western conceptions of writing or trying to find an alleged American ethnopoetics, this e-book techniques literature as a Western invention and, in flip, seeks out correspondences among traditions
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Pigafetta writes in a heavily vernacular Italian, the Veneto “dialect” that had its heyday between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, peppered with the Spanish and Portuguese spoken by most of Magellan’s crew. Add to that the copyist’s modifications and/or oversights, and the matter becomes hopelessly unclear. Even the very name of the “diary” is far from stable. The heading of the manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, the only one preserving the Italic orthography, reads: “Notizie del nuevo mondo” [News of the New World ] – note the Spanish word “nuevo” in place of the Italian word “nuovo” (my emphasis).
Profit or loss, indeed: the un/certain character of “critical fortune” impels don Alonso to advise Concolorcorvo in a single passage both to openly renounce authorship and to capitalize on it to the utmost extent: Very well, Monsieur Concolorcorvo—Let us suppose that your great historical itinerary is criticized in salons and society gatherings, that they deem your efforts wasted and your work not worth a damn. What would you care? After all, you sold your copies at a fine price! To hell with any work that no one criticizes!
Its phonetic insecurity . . ”11 Movable space-time of languages and languagers, co-lapse of all fidelities, treasons and treasonous fidelities: the border or frontier —more than a outline or commark—marked from the start an intensely polemic zone, an imprecise, fluctuating stretch inhabited provisionally, whether by Muslims, Christians, or an intermingling of Muslims and Christians, in any case, uncouth if not unsavory types. The Poem of My Cid, a Spanish classic, depicts it more than once.