The Conquest All Over Again
Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism
Published on 23. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
273 pages
978-1-84519-475-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises, tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousand of documents were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a grand scale? At what point did pre-contact sacred writing become utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form of boosterism, even ingenious intellectualism, or were they ultimately a literature of ruin? This volume seeks to address key aspects of indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism by examining what they themselves recorded and why they did so.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Illustrations
b/w illus
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84519-475-8 (9781845194758)
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Person
Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles about intellectualism, religion, resistance, society, politics, and women in colonial Nahua Mesoamerica.
Content
Aztec Pictography and European Prose: Translation across Language, Script, and Genre (Elizabeth Hill Boone); Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitls Narratives of the Conquest: Historical Discourses and the Colonial Subject (Amber Brian); Staging Conquest: A Nahuatl Historical Drama of the Destruction of Jerusalem (Louise M. Burkhart); Sixteenth-Century Pictorials from Tlaxcala: A Multiplicity of Responses to the Conquest (Travis Krantz); Chimalpahin and Writing Indian History for Generations to Come (Susan Schroeder); Perhaps our lord God has forgotten me: Intruding into the Colonial Nahua (Aztec) Confesssional (Barry David Sell); Sacred Time and Colonial Authority: Representation of Spanish Rule in the Zapotec Calendar of Villa Alta (David E. Tavarez); Three Texts in One: Images of the Conquest of Mexico in Book XII of the Florentine Codex (Kevin Terraciano); Don Juan Zapata and the Notion of a Nahua Identity (Camilla Townsend); Women in Conquest Paintings: Representations of Indigenous Women in Conquest Pictorials from New Spain. (Stephanie Wood).