Fashioning Sovereignty in Latin American Narrative

With the arrival of the Europeans, the dressed body became a discursive forum upon which to negotiate the possession of land and the legitimate right to govern in Latin America. In conquest chronicles, the Aristotelian notion that mother nature marked the bodies of those she destined for slavedom ca...

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Main Author: Ulloa, Esmeralda
Other Authors: Sommer, Doris
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10006
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10336882