Elise Bartosik-Velez is Associate Professor of Spanish at Dickinson College.
"[Bartosik-Velez] shows how the use of apocalyptic and prophetic
language, and specifically Columbus's self-portrayal as a martyr as
he fell from favor formed the basis for a rhetorical distancing
from the Spanish Empire upon which later nationalist renditions
would depend."
--Kristine Ibsen, author of Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention
of Empire
"[T]his book should be of interest to many readers. The fact that
it is tightly argued and pleasantly written will surely enhance its
appeal."
--Hispanic American Historical Review
"Bartosik-Velez's account of the making of Christopher Columbus and
his fusion with the myth of Aeneas is dazzling and convincing, and
it adds a substantial literary dimension to our understanding of
how he has been written and read into Western culture.
Groundbreaking in its willingness to consider side-by-side the
poetics of US and Spanish independence along with the foundations
of the Spanish colonial order, the book also gets at the
philosophical roots of the connection between independence and
empire and the interpretive bind it creates for the voices of
revolution in the US and Spanish America."
--Ronald Briggs, author of Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of
Bolivar
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