Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru: Second Edition
by
Rolena Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the midst of native people's discontent following Spanish conquest, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas took up the pen to protest Spanish rule. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala wrote his Nueva cornica y buen gobierno to inform Philip III of Spain about the evils of colonialism and the need...