Assimilating New Worlds in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- western understanding-of-other-cultures
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 23 (4) , 519-538
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500013542
Abstract
In Carlos Fuentes's recent novel,Terra Nostra, El Señor, an autistic Spanish king who bears a conspicuous resemblance to Philip II, is told of the existence of new worlds across the seas. In outrage and disbelief, he denies that such a thing was possible, for he, El Señor, had decreed that the only world which existed was to be found within the walls of his newly constructed palace. Royal monk that he was, he had ordered the world built for him and so forbade the existence of other worlds.Keywords
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