America unbounded in Lope de Vega: Text and writing in the new world discovered by Christopher Columbus

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Volume 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 121-135

[América desencuadernada en Lope de Vega: Texto y escritura en El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón]

Wise, C.A. 

 

College of Charleston, United States 

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Abstract

In Lope de Vega's El nuevo mundo por Cristóbal Colón, the universe seems bound together in paper and ink as if it were a book. The European kings describe the world by citing pages from Ptolemy, and Christopher Columbus's crew envisages itself as characters in Quintus Curtius's chronicle of Alexander the Great. However, conceiving of reality as text becomes problematic as Lope's Columbus exposes a new world that exists, quite literally, outside the pages of all European knowledge. Without any textual references with which the Spanish explorers can interpret the discovery, Lope reveals flaws in the European systems of representation and suggests that America is a concept that resists description. Nevertheless, the imperial project is finally successful when Spain abandons its textual system of knowledge in favour of a divine vision based on faith.

ISSN: 14753839Source Type: Journal Original language: English, Spanish

Document Type: Article

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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