“Los trataban como a hijos”: The Indians in Inca Garcilaso's Historia general del Perú

Authors

  • Susan Isabel Stein Texas Tech University

Keywords:

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Ideology, Universalism

Abstract

This essay analyses how the writings of Inca Garcilaso has its roots in a ideological perspective (an European one) that tries to disguise itself as "universal".

Author Biography

Susan Isabel Stein, Texas Tech University

Susan Isabel Stein teaches graduate courses on critical theory and Colonial Latin American literature at Texas Tech University. She is interested in the intersections among race, gender, ideology and psychoanalytic theory and has written articles on Sor Juana’s letters and colonial prose, 19th-century Latin American literature (including domestic comedies and the novel Sab); her contribution to A Contracorriente is taken from her book project on Inca Garcilaso's Historia general del Perú.

Published

2005-04-10

How to Cite

Stein, S. I. (2005). “Los trataban como a hijos”: The Indians in Inca Garcilaso’s Historia general del Perú. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 2(3), 75–101. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/85

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