Brickhouse, "Hemispheric Jamestown" - a translation of terms

Terms (parenthetical numbers refer to page in course reader)

inextricable (45) – unable to be untangled or untied

genealogy (45) – line of descent

aporia (46) – an impasse or absence

anglophone chroniclers (46) – historians writing in English

mediations (46) – the interposition of someone who reinterprets and changes the meaning in the process

internal narrators (46) – when one narrator recounts the story told by another, the latter is the internal narrator

riven (46) – pierced, split

polyvocality (46) – having multiple voices

filial (48) – child-parent relation

multivalent (48) – many-sided

trope (49) – figure of speech

interlocutor (49) – person with whom one speaks

discursive apparatus (50) – the expectations and conventions of the writing

tension that deforms the intended story (49) (deforming tension (50)) – the text cannot be interpreted as the author intended because other elements undermine or complicate it

apostasy (52) – abandonment of faith

corporeal (52) – relating to the body

privileges (verb) (52) - emphasizes

reprises (55) – enacts again

harbinger (57) – sign of the future

hispanophone (58) – written in Spanish

prolepsis (59) – in anticipation; the treating of an event as if it had already happened, before it could have done so

subaltern (59) – marginalized position in society

epistemology (60) – theory of what constitutes knowledge