03377cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000310012624500490015726400510020630000470025733600260030433700260033033800360035649000310039250000310042350801560045452021520061053400690276265300570283183000310288885600770291985600430299677692UtSlPG20260610134811.0mcr n260607r20261922utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a23009469  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aMoses, Bernard,d1846-193010aSpanish colonial literature in South America 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aHispanic American series I  aRelease date is 2026-01-13  aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Spanish colonial literature in South America" by Bernard Moses is a historical-literary study written in the early 20th century. It surveys the written record of Spanish South America across the colonial era, broadly including chronicles, relaciones, poetry, geography and natural history, ecclesiastical writings, legal treatises, and administrative texts. Through these works, and within the contexts of imperial governance, censorship, printing, education, and social hierarchy, it profiles key authors and texts to reveal how colonial society saw itself.

The opening of the book argues that to grasp colonial life one must read what contemporaries wrote, since official documents and later histories miss the texture of thought and feeling. The introduction sketches Spain’s administrative framework (Council of the Indies, viceroyalties, audiencias), the Inquisition’s chilling effect on free expression, the late and limited rise of printing in the Andes and Jesuit missions, and the resulting dominance of history, geography, and church writings—alongside a vogue for epic verse sparked by Ercilla. It contrasts Lima’s courtly literary circles with pervasive social stratification, economic restrictions, and a conservative cultural inheritance, and explains why the colonies nonetheless produced abundant texts. The first case studies set up opposing lenses: Las Casas’s fierce advocacy for Indians and sweeping critique of colonial practice versus Oviedo’s official chronicling and cooler treatment of abuses (illustrated by divergent accounts of pearl fishing), with Andagoya’s narrative linking Isthmian exploration to Pizarro’s enterprise. The next chapter turns to eyewitness reports of Peru’s conquest—Xerés’s and Sancho’s vivid accounts of Atahualpa’s seizure and the treasure—alongside moral appraisals (Tomás de San Martín) and defenses (Peñalosa), with further testimony from Pedro Pizarro and Cristóbal de Molina. It closes by introducing Cieza de León’s early life and enlistment, foreshadowing his major chronicling of the Andean world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Hispanic Society of America, 1922  aSpanish American literature -- History and criticism 0aHispanic American series I4 uhttps://archive.org/details/spanishcoloniall00moseuoft/page/n11/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77692