Title Exemplary violence : rewriting history in colonial Colombia / Alberto Villate-Isaza

Published Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. Contents A rhetorical balancing act -- Instructing through negative examples -- Nudity is the disguise. Political and moral instruction -- The authority to displace and adapt the past -- Founding principles -- The constant threat of beauty and wealth Summary "In Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire asserts that colonization ultimately works to decivilize the colonizer, awakening baser, brutalizing, and dehumanizing instincts in him. In Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia, Villate-Isaza explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela)-Pedro Simón's Noticias historiales (1626), Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero (1636), and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general (1676)--each of which reveals the colonizing elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order. In spite of their attempts to convey a straightforward narrative of European political, technical, and moral superiority while conforming to Counter-Reformation Catholic orthodoxy, these accounts reveal tensions and highlight conflicts and ambiguities between the writers' social interests and personal identifications. As they attempt to reinforce the principal tenets of European culture in the New Kingdom, they also reveal contradictions inherent in a "more advanced" culture when colonizers behave in barbaric ways"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Columbian history, Columbia, civilization, conquest, violence, intellectual life, Venezuela, Latin American, Latin American Literature, literature, colonial, seventeenth-century, New Kingdom of Granada, Pedro Simón's Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general, Counter-Reformation Catholic orthodoxy, European culture, New Kingdom, colonial era, Colonialism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- Colombia -- Attitudes Violence -- Colombia -- History -- 17th century Civilization, Baroque -- Spain HISTORY -- General. Civilization Civilization, Baroque Elite (Social sciences) -- Attitudes Historiography Spanish colonies Violence SUBJECT Colombia -- History -- To 1810 -- Historiography Spain -- Colonies -- Historiography Spain -- Colonies -- America Colombia -- Civilization -- 17th century Subject America Colombia Spain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684482634 1684482631 9781684482658 1684482658

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