Incan Insights

El Inca Garcilaso's Hints to Andean Readers

José Antonio Mazzotti ; (Translation of: Coros mestizos del Inca Garcilaso Resonancias andinas Lima, 1996 Revised and updated)

Over the past few decades, the field of Colonial Latin American Studies has experienced a rich and productive renewal. The implementation of valuable theoretical advances and modern methods of analysis has given rise to original and innovative interpretations of ancient texts.

Such is the case with the present work by José Antonio Mazzotti which examines the Royal Commentaries (1609 and 1617) of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, a masterpiece of Latin American literature and Incan historiography. Mazzotti´s study sets forth a new and alternative
reading of this foundational text, paying close attention to the indigenous sources and Andean resonance of a work that has served as the basis for many interpretations of Latin American identity.

José Antonio Mazzotti received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Tufts University. He has written Coros mestizos del Inca Garcilaso: resonancias andinas (1996), and Poéticas del flujo: migración y violencia verbales en el Perú de los 80 (2002).

He has also edited Agencias criollas: la ambigüedad "colonial" en las letras hispanoamericanas (2000), and "Discurso en loor de la poesía": estudio y edición por Antonio Cornejo Polar (2000), and co-edited El bosque de los huesos. Antología de la nueva poesía peruana 1963-1993 (1995), Asedios a la heterogeneidad cultural: libro de homenaje a Antonio Cornejo Polar (1996), Edición e interpretación de textos andinos (2000), The Other Latinos: Central and South Americans in the United States (2007), and Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (2009).

Renacimiento mestizo : Los 400 años de los Comentarios Reales / José Antonio Mazzotti (ed.)

Nuevas lecturas de "La Florida del Inca" / Carmen de Mora, Antonio Garrido Aranda (eds.)

Humanismo, mestizaje y escritura en los "Comentarios reales" / Carmen de Mora, Guillermo Serés, Mercedes Serna (eds.)

El Inca Garcilaso, traductor de culturas / Mercedes López-Baralt.