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Author Rabasa, José

Title Tell me the story of how I conquered you : elsewheres and ethnosuicide in the colonial Mesoamerican world / by José Rabasa
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Contents Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Overture; 2. Reading Folio 46R; 3. DepictIng Perspective; 4. The Dispute of the Friars; 5. Topologies of Conquest; 6. Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You -- 7. The Entrails of Periodization; 8. (In)comparable Worlds; 9. Elsewheres; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 rich 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 elsewhere and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intution), Tell Me the Story of Howl 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Franciscans -- Missions -- Mexico -- History
Dominicans -- Missions -- Mexico -- History
SUBJECT Dominicans fast
Franciscans fast
Dominikaner gnd
Franziskaner gnd
Codex Telleriano-Remensis. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93118991
Codex Telleriano-Remensis fast
Subject Aztec art.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Aztecs -- Missions
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Aztec art
Aztecs -- Missions
Colonies -- Administration
Missions
Nahuatl language -- Writing
Spanish colonies
Bilderhandschrift
Kolonialismus
Mission
Eroberung Motiv
Widerstand Motiv
Autonomie Motiv
Nahuatl
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084578
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
Subject America
Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292735464
9780292735460