Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Second Edition: Contextualizing the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
  • Guaman Poma in the Documentary Record
  • The Production and Facsimile Reproduction of the Autograph Manuscript
  • Recent Advances in the Study of Guaman Poma's Visual and Verbal Art
  • Guaman Poma in the 1590s
    • The Expediente Prado Tello
    • Guaman Poma in the Expediente Prado Tello
    • Guaman Poma versus Don Domingo Jauli and the Chachapoyas
    • The Conclusion of the Land-Title Litigation
  • Guaman Poma in 1600: The Sentence of Exile from Huamanga
  • Chupas and the Chachapoyas in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
  • Mestizaje in the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
  • Guaman Poma's Biography Reconsidered
  • Writing and Religion: The Visita Report
  • An Anticipated Glimpse into the Artist's Studio
• Introduction
  • History Writing and Polemic
  • Challenging the Canon
• 1. Contradicting the Chronicles of Conquest
  • Guaman Poma's Exploitation of Written Histories
  • Respect for History
  • The Dominican Philosophy of Conquest
  • The Dramatization of a Hypothesis
  • The Present Overwhelms the Past
• 2. Searching for a Heroic Conception
  • Historical Truth and Moral Vision
  • Biographies of Incas and Kings
  • The Prologue Always Comes Last
  • The Nueva Coronica as Epic Story
• 3. From Story to Sermon
  • Granadine Strategies
  • On Moving the Reader's Affections
  • The Literature of Conversion
  • A Theory of Cross-Cultural Communication
  • The Privileged Role of Invention
  • The Simile of Lucifer
  • The Voice and Character of the Preacher
  • The Sermon Overtakes the Story
• 4. Icons in Space: The Silent Orator
  • Baroque Sensibilities
  • Visual Representation and Suppression
  • The Symbolic Values of Pictorial Space
  • Lines of Authority and Hierarchy
  • Disorder on the Horizontal Axis
  • Paradigms Lost: The Reversed Diagonal and the Empty Center
• 5. Mediating among Many Worlds
  • Allegory, Satire, and the Sermon
  • Of Caciques and Coyas
  • Inside the Coya's Chamber
  • The Present in the Past
  • The Author as Hero
  • Guaman Poma's Final Critique
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index