Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

113. The Missing Source: Foregrounding Fragmentary Evidence in the Reinterpretation of Colonial Texts

7:00–8:15 p.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures

Presiding: Cynthia L. Stone, Coll. of the Holy Cross

1. “Columbus’s Postils to d’Ailly’s Ymago mundi: Toward an Epistemology of the Margins in the Documentary Corpus of the Discovery,” Nicolas Wey-Gomez, Brown Univ.

2. “Writing History for a New World: Fernández de Oviedo’s Processes of Composition and Revision,” Kathleen Myers, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

3. “The Quito Manuscript: The Submerged Native Text in the Historical Memoirs of Peru,” Sabine Hyland, Saint Norbert Coll.

Respondent: Veronica A. Salles-Reese, Georgetown Univ.

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