Papers by Michael Palencia-Roth
Modern Language Review, 1985
Modern Language Review, 1985
Revista de estudios colombianos, 1989
Comparative Literature Studies, 2018
Comparative Civilizations Review, Apr 1, 2006
The Comparative Civilizations Review (CCR) was launched in Winter 1979 as volume 7, no. 3 of the ... more The Comparative Civilizations Review (CCR) was launched in Winter 1979 as volume 7, no. 3 of the Comparative Civilizations Bulletin (CCB). Up to that time the CCB had been the main organ of publication and communication for the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). The decision to begin publishing the journal, and to link it bibliographically to the Bulletin initially, was made at the 7 ,h annual meeting of the Society, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in 1978.' The Society's first American president, Benjamin Nelson, had recently died, and a scholarly journal dedicated entirely to the comparative study of civilizations had been one of his fondest wishes. To date (August 2005), the Society has published 52 issues of the Review. The following three indices-articles indexed by their authors, book reviews indexed by the book's authors or editors, book reviews indexed by the book's title-cover issues 1 through 50. The editors of the CCR, from its inception to the present, are as follows. Vytautas Kavolis and Edmund Leites were its two founding coeditors, and they continued to share that responsibility through issue 22 (Spring 1990). Upon the departure of Edmund Leites, the position of the other co-editor of the journal was assumed by Wayne Bledsoe. He and Kavolis co-edited the journal from issue 23 (Fall 1990) through issue 34 (Spring 1996). Then Joseph Drew began his tenure as editor of the CCR. He edited issue 35 (Winter 1997) alone. For issues 36 (Spring 1997) and 37 (Fall 1997), he was assisted by Loyd Swenson as co-editor. Then Joseph Drew again assumed sole editorial responsibility with issue 38 (Spring 1998) though 40 (Spring 1999). With issue 41 (Fall 1999), and continuing through issue 44 (Spring 2001), he was 'The bibliographical equivalents between the Review and the Bulletin are as follows:
World Literature Today, 1990
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Nov 1, 2008
Drafted in 1542 and first published in 1552, the Brevı́sima relación has been reprinted and re-ed... more Drafted in 1542 and first published in 1552, the Brevı́sima relación has been reprinted and re-edited in dozens of editions and translations ever since. The most recent scholarly editions are those by André Saint-Lu (Cátedra, 1999), Consuelo Varela (Castalia, 1999) and Isacio Pérez Fernández (CEDOC, 2000). Each of those editions is annotated, is prefaced by a long introductory essay, and includes a bibliography by and about Las Casas. Each aims to be definitive. Given such an editorial cornucopia, one might well ask if yet another edition of the Brevı́sima relación is necessary. It might not be necessary, but this particular edition, the product of ten years of labor, is welcome. Some might consider Martı́nez Torrejón?s editorial zeal to be excessive. In addition to penning an introduction of 84 pages, he presents the reader with almost 100 pages of supplementary explanatory material in the ‘‘endnotes’’ and so extensive a ‘‘footnote’’ apparatus that it nearly doubles the number of printed pages that the Brevı́sima relación occupies. Nevertheless, it is in part that editorial excess that makes this edition so useful. The introduction provides a superb contextualization of Las Casas’ text. A solid and documented understanding of the importance of the Brevı́sima relación in its time and its resonance through the centuries is now within the easy reach of the student of colonial literature and history. Colonial literature and culture are endlessly fascinating for many reasons, two of which inform my admiration of José Miguel Martı́nez Torrejón’s edition. The first is the ever-present issue of misunderstanding what may seem readily understandable. We sometimes make the mistake of thinking that the language and the ideas of Spain and Spanish-America in the sixteenth century are closer to our own than is in fact the case. We do so partly because most twentieth-century editions have a modern orthography and because we attribute our own contemporary meanings to many sixteenth-century terms. A case in point concerning the hermeneutic tension between the sixteenth century and our own day is Martı́nez Torrejón’s gloss on the complete title of the original edition: Brevı́sima relación de la destruición de Las Indias, colegida por el Obispo don Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas o Casaus, de la Orden de Santo Domingo. Año 1552. Martı́nez Torrejón first of all indicates that the term ‘‘relación’’ refers to a document that is official and composed as a testimonial; the date gives the document further authority. But the adjective ‘‘colegida’’ undermines the testimonial nature of the document because it refers to accounts for which Las Casas himself was not an eye-witness. Hence, in Martı́nez Torrejón’s view, this ‘‘oxymoron’’ is at the heart of the mixed and contradictory nature of the Brevı́sima relación. Finally, the term ‘‘destruición’’ refers not merely to a physical ‘‘destruction’’, which would be the English sense of the
Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, Sep 15, 2001
Revista de estudios colombianos, 2000
Comparative Civilizations Review, 1997
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsAr... more This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Civilizations Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
Revista anthropos: Huellas del conocimiento, 1999
Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, Jan 15, 1990
... One of several possible guides on this path and a hitherto unexplored link between the classi... more ... One of several possible guides on this path and a hitherto unexplored link between the classical and the Christianas well as between evangelization and conquest in a New World ... After all, he continued, we would not be prepared to describe Alexander the Great as a ...
Comparative Civilizations Review, 1992
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 5, 2016
Modern Language Notes, Apr 1, 1977
Sociological analysis, 1979
Chasqui-revista De Literatura Latinoamericana, 1987
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