Desire and Dominion: Aspects of Gender and Statehood in Iberian Colonial Literature

Readings

The Lusiads of Luis de Camoes (1572), trans. Leonard Bacon. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1950, Book IX (pp. 313-345).

Caminha, Pero Vaz de. "Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel." In William Brooks Greenlee, ed. and trans., The Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral To Brazil and India, from Contemporary Documents and Narratives, Hakluyt Society, Series 2, vol. 81. London: Hakluyt Society, 1938, pp. 3-33.

Helgerson, Richard. "The Voyages of a Nation," in Forms of Nationhood. Chicago: UCP, 1992, pp. 149-191.

Montrose, Louis. "The Work of Gender and Sexuality in the Elizabethan Discourse of Discovery" in Discourses of Sexuality From Aristotle to Aids. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, pp. 138-184.

Recommended

Brandao, Ambrosio Fernandes. "Dialogues V & VI," in Dialogues of the Great Things of Brazil (1618), trans. by Frederick Holden Hall, William F. Harrison and Dorothy Winters Welker. Albuquerque: UNMP, 1987, pp. 247-279, 304-326.

Gama, Jose Basilio da. The Uruguay, trans. by Sir Richard Burton. Edited by Garcia and Stanton. Berkeley: UCP, 1982, Cantos III and IV, pp. 71-93.

Gandavo, Pero de Magalhães. "About a Marine Monster that was killed in the Captaincy of São Vicente in the Year 1564," in The Histories of Brazil (1576) trans. by John B. Stetson. New York: The Cortes Society, 1922, pp. 79-82.

Parker, Patricia. "Motivated Rhetorics: Gender, Order, Rule," and "Rhetorics of Property: Exploration, Inventory, Blazon," in Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property. London: Methuen, 1987. pp. 104-113, 126-154.

Quint, David. "Epic and Empire: Versions of Actium," and "The Epic Curse and Camoes' Adamastor," in Epic and Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 21-48, 99-125.

Seidler, Victor J. "Reason, Desire and Male Sexuality" in The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1987,pp. 82-112.