Description:
Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnational identity, interdisciplinarity, influence on modern historians and ethnographers, the Quechua language, Incan social structures, Incan myth and religion, translation, natural history, indigenous writing and culture, the picaresque, genre, and historiography.
Review Quotes:
"This edited volume describes ways to incorporate excerpts from Inca Garcilaso de le Vega's works in translation and tie them to topics ranging from Indigeneity to linguistics." --Hispania
"This excellent collection of essays . . . provides valuable insights for students today, especially for many Latinx students whose bicultural and bilingual experiences resonate with Inca Garcilaso's life and world." --Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
"A much-needed addition to the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series." --Eyda M. Merediz, University of Maryland, College Park