Front Lines: Soldiers'' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
ISBN: 9780812293128
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

Front Lines documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. The epic poems, chronicles, ballads, and autobiographies that these soldiers wrote at the front provide a critical view from below on state violence and imperial expansion.


Miguel Martinez teaches Spanish at the University of Chicago.
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