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Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World

Autor José Rabasa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2011
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the ways in which the folio's tlacuilo (indigenous painter/writer) creates a pictorial vocabulary, this book embraces the place "outside" history from which this rich document emerged.
Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewheres and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intuition), Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r—traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292747616
ISBN-10: 0292747616
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 14 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

José Rabasa teaches in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University. His previous books include Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism; Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest; and Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Overture
  • Chapter 2. Reading Folio 46r
  • Chapter 3. Depicting Perspective
  • Chapter 4. The Dispute of the Friars
  • Chapter 5. Topologies of Conquest
  • Chapter 6. "Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You"
  • Chapter 7. The Entrails of Periodization
  • Chapter 8. (In)comparable Worlds
  • Chapter 9. Elsewheres
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter’s perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.