| FT-51471-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Jerry M. Williams | Lima Fundada: Identity Politics in a Providential Epic of Conquest | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Jerry | M. | Williams | | | | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | West Chester | PA | 19383-0001 | USA | 2003 | Spanish Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
The 1732 epic poem chronicles the history of cultural-political formations and affirms Creole identity through an architecture of conquest influenced by French neoclassicism and revisionist Bourbon precepts about history. Acknowledging epic models of conquerors, Peralta shifts emphasis from a European to a Creole interpretation of the conquest, where it is defined by governance, service and development over arms, and by a concept of political discourse authorizing religious discourse (conquest of providentialism and a invitation to conquest). Summer research to write a introductory essay leading to publication of the scarce poem will center Peralta within the canon of Latin American letters by refocusing his unique Creole-identity politics. |