Anna Lanyon
Autor von Malinche : die andere Geschichte der Eroberung Mexikos
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Anna Lanyon's Malinches Conquest was awarded and widely translated, and was followed by The New World of Martin Corts. Fire and Song again shows her as a scholar whose chronicles from contemporary testimonies are so vivid that readers feel witness to the dramatic events and intimate moments of mehr anzeigen individual lives, which are woven deftly into the fabric of their times to illuminate the bigger historical picture. Fire and Song presents a world without the human rights and tolerance we take for granted today; yet the insights remain all too pertinent - into the power of faith, the tangled knot of religious and political interests, and human yearning for identity, belonging and spirituality. weniger anzeigen
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I like the way Anna Lanyon tells us about how she went about her research; searching archives, visiting old residences, following up descendents.
Interesting both for the story of this woman and the legends that have been built around her but also to read about the historical research process by a Latrobe academic.
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I wondered how Lanyon could find enough material about Marina to fill a book. I discovered that the book is as much travelogue as history. Lanyon follows Marina's trail through the southern part of Mexico. She visits places where Marina lived or traveled according to history or legend. Although few physical traces remain from that era, her presence left its mark in the cultural memory.
Lanyon ends where I would have started – in archival repositories. I'm more interested in the historical person than the legend. More than once Lanyon mentions that she didn't begin her archival research until her trip was winding down, and she ran out of time before she had exhausted every potential resource. Who knows how much more she might have learned if she had started with the archives?… (mehr)