| Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690): Annotated Bilingual Edition Bilingual Edition Contributor(s): Buscaglia-Salgado, José F. (Editor), De Siguenza y. Gongora, Carlos (Author), Buscaglia-Salgado, José F. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0813593085 ISBN-13: 9780813593081 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Maritime History & Piracy - History | Latin America - Mexico - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 863.3 |
| LCCN: 2018004706 |
| Physical Information: 298 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, Jos F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ram rez, who was shipwrecked on Herradura Point in the Coast of Yucat n on Sunday September 18, 1689. This first bilingual edition of the Infortunios/Misfortunes reports the findings of almost two decades of sustained research in pursuit, on land and by sea, of a most elusive historical character who was, as we now can attest with all degree of certainty, the first American known to have circumnavigated the globe. Captured by pirates, shipwrecked, and eventually rescued and sent on his way, this is one man's story of his unanticipated voyage around the Early Modern world. With transcription, translation, notes, maps, images, and critical essay by Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado, this Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity. |