Nicolas Wey-Gomez's Publications
Books:
The Tropics of Empire. Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Ed. Jed. Z. Buchwald. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2008. xxiv + 592 pp. + 46 figs.
Essays:
Aristotle and the American Tropics: The Politics of Place in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias (1526). [Under review].
The Great World-Machine: The Discovery of America, the Revolution of the Orbs, and the Rise of Empire in the Tropics / La gran máquina del mundo: El descubrimiento de América, la revolución de los orbes, y el imperio en los trópicos. In Machina / Medium / Apparatus. Ed. Karla Jasso and Anna More. Ciudad de Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana; INBA-CONACULTA. [Forthcoming].
Memorias de la zona tórrida: naturalismo clásico y tropicalidad en el Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias (1526) de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. [Forthcoming: Revista de Indias (C.S.I. C.)].
Los trópicos del imperio: Cristóbal Colón y el sur en la empresa de las Indias. In La pluma es la lengua del alma: Ensayos en honor de E. Michael Gerli (The Pen is the Soul's Tongue: Studies in Honor of E. Michael Gerli). Ed. José Manuel Hidalgo. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011.
The Politics of Light: Al-Kindī’s Optics and the Vindication of the American Tropics in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Apologética historia sumaria (1527-1561). In Early Modern Eyes, ed. Walter Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel, pp. 11-54. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture. Ed. K. A. E. Enenkel. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
A Poetics of Dismemberment: The Book of Job and the Cannibals of Cariay in Columbus’s Account of the Fourth Voyage. Colonial Latin American Review 16.1 (2007): 109-123.
The Jealous and the Curious: Freud, Paranoia, and Homosexuality in Cervantes’s Poetics. In Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies,ed.A. J. Cruz and C. B. Johnson, 170-198. Hispanic Issues. Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.
Anselmo’s Eating Disorder (I.33-35) In Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote, ed. Diana de Armas Wilson, 814-821. A volume of the Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.
“Nuestro Padre el Sol”: Scholastic Cosmology and the Cult of the Sun in Inca Garcilaso’s Comentarios reales. Latin American Literary Review 26.52 (1998): 19-26. Special issue on Colonial Studies. Guest Editor Verónica Salles-Reese.
Cannibalism as Defacement: Columbus's Account of the Fourth Voyage. Journal of Hispanic Philology 16.2 (1992): 195-208.
¿Dónde está Garcilaso? La oscilación del sujeto en la formación de un discurso transcultural (Where is Garcilaso? The self’s displacement in the formation of a transcultural discourse). Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 34 (1991): 7-31.
Last updated: January 03, 2013 15:24
