Inca Garcilaso and Contemporary World-Making 

 

Christian Fernandez. Inca Garcilaso and Contemporary World-Making (Pitt Illuminations) edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and Christian Fernandez. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-16160. One of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors, Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries of the Incas presented an early counter-hegemonic discourse and a reframing of the history of native non-alphabetic cultures that undermined the colonial rhetoric of his time and the geopolitical divisions it purported. Through his research in both Andean and Renaissance archives, Inca Garcilaso sought to connect these divergent cultures into one world.