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C o n t e n t s Preface and Acknowledgments vii 1 Toward a Materialist Poetics of Counter-Epic Literature 1 2 “So That the Rulers Might Sleep Without Bad Dreams”: Imperial Ideology and Practices 15 3 Liminal Identity and Polyphonic Ideology in Indiano Drama 39 4 The Early Modern History Play as Counter-Epic Mode: Cervantes’s La destrucción de Numancia and Lope de Vega’s Arauco domado 77 5 The Novelistic History Play: Rojas Zorrilla’s Numancia Diptych and González de Bustos’s Los españoles en Chile 129 6 “War and Lechery”: La gatomaquia and the Burlesque Epic 161 7 Conclusions 181 Works Cited 203 Index 217 v ...

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