Brotherston, Gordon, Born 1939
Dates
- Existence: Born 1939
Biography
Gordon Brotherston was Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, USA, and Emeritus Professor, University of Essex, UK until his retirement. His career is marked by scholarly contributions to the fields of Hispanic, Latin American and Native American literatures, as well as literary translation.
Publications include: Manuel Machado (1968); Latin American Poetry (1976); The Emergence of the Latin American Novel (1977); and Image of the New World (1979). With the North American poet Edward Dorn, he worked on translations of Latin American and indigenous literatures of the Americas over four decades, collected as The Sun Unwound: Original Texts from Occupied America (1999). He has published volumes on native script and chronology: A Key to the Mesoamerican Reckoning of Time (1982) and Calendars in Mesoamerica and Peru (1983; with A. Aveni); also Voices of the First America (1986).
Brotherston organised the exhibition of Mexican Painted Books at the British Museum in 1992 and has published a number of studies of Mexican iconography and native American literature, including Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature (1992), and Painted Books from Mexico: Codices in the United Kingdom Collections and the World they Represent (1995).