Invasion and Transformation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico
Will be published approx. on 15. December 2007
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-0-87081-886-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries. Was Moteuczoma really as weak as history portrayed him? As Susan D Gillespie instead suggests in 'Blaming Moteuczoma', the representation of Moteuczoma as a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat can be understood as a product of indigenous resistance and accommodation following the imposition of Spanish colonialism. Chapters address the various roles (real and imagined) of Moteuczoma, Cortes, and Malinche in the fall of the Aztecs; the representation of history in colonial art; and the complex cultural transformations that actually took place.
Reviews / Votes
"...provides exciting readings of indigenous rationalizations of the history of the Spanish invasion and the colonizers' effort to assert their sense of superiority in their allegiance to Spanish imperial expansion. Together, these essays successfully force the reader to question conventional readings of both Spanish and indigenous conquest narratives." -- Cristian Roa de la Carrera, University of Illinois at Chicago.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Colorado
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87081-886-8 (9780870818868)
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Rebecca P. Brienen | Margaret A. Jackson
Invasion and Transformation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico
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11/2020
University Press of Colorado
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Persons
Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. Jackson are assistant professors of art history at the University of Miami.
Content
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Remembering the Legends: Moteuczoma, Cortes, and Malinche; 1. Meeting the Enemy: Moteuczoma and Cortes, Herod and the Magi; Louise M. Burkhart; 2. Blaming Moteuczoma: Anthropomorphizing the Aztec Conquest; Susan D. Gillespie; 3. The Hero as Rhetor: Hern n Cortes's Second and Third Letters to Charles V; Viviana Diaz Balsera; 4. Now You See Her, Now You Don't: Memory and the Politics of Identity Construction in Representations of Malinche; Constance Cortez; Part II. The Transformation of History: Painting the Conquest of Mexico; 5. Spanish Creation of the Conquest of Mexico; Matthew Restall; 6. The Conquest of Mexico and the Representation of Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain; Michael J. Schreffler; 7. Painting a New Era: Conquest, Prophecy, and the World to Come; Diana Magaloni Kerpel; Part III. Effects of Invasion: Death and Conquest; 8. Indian Autopsy and Epidemic Disease in Early Colonial Mexico; Martha Few; 9. Death during the Conquest Era; Ximena Ch vez Balderas; Part IV: Conquest of Mexico Paintings, the Kislak Collection, Library of Congress; 10. The Kislak Paintings and the Conquest of Mexico; Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A, Jackson; Works Cited; Index