BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN The Codex Romances De Los Senores De La Nueva Espana (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Language: English
Published by University of Texas Press, 2009
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237pp. Soft cover. No highlighting or annotations to text. Edges rubbed.
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- Title
- BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN The Codex Romances De Los Senores De La Nueva Espana (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
- Author
- Transcribed and Translated from the Nahuatl by John Bierhorst
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0292723458
- ISBN 13
- 9780292723450
Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's paradise and in the virtue of sacrifice.
This volume contains an exact transcription of the thirty-six Nahuatl song texts, accompanied by authoritative English translations. Bierhorst includes all the numerals (which give interpretive clues) in the Nahuatl texts and also differentiates the text from scribal glosses. His translations are thoroughly annotated to help readers understand the imagery and allusions in the texts. The volume also includes a helpful introduction and a larger essay, "On the Translation of Aztec Poetry," that discusses many relevant historical and literary issues.
In Bierhorst's expert translation and interpretation, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain emerges as a song of resistance by a conquered people and the recollection of a glorious past.
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About the Author
John Bierhorst is the author of thirty-five books on the Native literature of the Americas, including Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs; A Nahuatl-English Dictionary; History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca; Mythology of the Lenape: Guide and Texts; and Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions. He lives in West Shokan, New York.
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