Pirate Alterity and Mimesis in Colonial Epic Poetry
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https://doi.org/10.13035/H.2016.04.01.04Abstract
Pirate representation is studied in a series of Epic poems in the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. The ambiguous image of the English enemy is read in texts by Juan de Miramontes, Pedro de Oña, Martín del Barco Centenera and Juan de Castellanos, among others. On the one hand, Colonial Epic ignores some important differences between privateers and pirates since the privateering had been legally accepted by all European nations, including Spain. Besides, Pirate is always called «Lutheran» and revealing its absolute otherness with respect to the Catholic model. On the other hand, it proposes a laudatory epics enemy painting from the imitation of the values accepted by the colonial society. The relationship between the Spanish hero and the privateer is represented not in a vertical direction, as could happen between colonizer and colonized subject, but on a level of rivalry.Downloads
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2016-05-12
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Crónicas y épica de Indias: nuevas lecturas (Coordinador: Javier de Navascués)
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Hipogrifo (ISSN: 2328-1308) es una revista bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Unported.