José Rabasa

Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier

The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest

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Produktbeschreibung

"Rabasa provides a compelling understanding of the cultural worlds of the Spanish conquerors as they collided violently with Native Americans in the contact zones--in Florida, California, Texas, Chile, and Argentina. In so doing he devastates the rationales underlying violence in sixteenth century Spanish history and fiction, and thus challenges the readers to reconsider the rationales by which English and American settlers inhabited the West, and which they called 'frontier violence.' "--Patricia Seed, Rice University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325673
• ISBN-10: 0822325675
• Artikelnr.: 22164074

Autorenporträt

José Rabasa is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
On Writing Violence: An Introduction
1. Reading Cabeza de Vaca, or How We Perpetuate the Culture of Conquest
2. The Mediation of the Law in the New Mexico Corpus, 1539–1609
> 3. Aesthetics of Colonial Violence: The Massacre of Acoma in Gaspar de
Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México
4. Violence in de Soto Narratives: Moralistic Terrorism in Oviedo’s
Historia general
> 5. “Porque soy indio”: Subjectivity in Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca
6. Of Massacre and Representation: Painting Hatred and Ceremonies of
Possession in Protestant Anti-Spanish Pamphleteering
Epilogue: Before Histories
Abreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index