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The memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier / Fray Servando Teresa de Mier ; edited with an introduction by Susana Rotker ; translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane.
LIBRA F1232 .M6778313 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mier Noriega y Guerra, José Servando Teresa de, 1763-1827.
- Series:
- Library of Latin America
- Standardized Title:
- Memorias. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Mier Noriega y Guerra, José Servando Teresa de, 1763-1827.
- Mier Noriega y Guerra, José Servando Teresa de.
- Mexico--History--19th century.
- Mexico.
- History.
- Statesmen--Mexico--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Dominicans--Mexico--Biography.
- Dominicans.
- Historians--Mexico--Biography.
- Historians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- lxiv, 242 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier preached a sermon in Mexico City that led to his arrest by the Inquisition. He was exiled to Spain -- only to escape and spend ten years traveling throughout Europe, as none other than a French priest. So began the grand adventure of Fray Servando's life, and of this gripping memoir. Here is an invitation hard for any reader to resist: a glimpse of the European "Age of Enlightenment" through the eyes of a fugitive Mexican friar. In this memoir, one sees a portrait of manners and morals that is a far cry from the "civilized" spirit that the Empire wanted to impose on its Colonies. This book takes a took at history from an upside down perspective, asking this question: who were the real savages, the colonizers themselves, or the supposed "savages" they were struggling to convert?
- After ten years, Fray Servando finally returned home to an independent Mexico, where he served the new government before his death. Heretic and rebel fugitive and visionary, character in a novel and father of Iris country -- Fray Servando Teresa de Mier was all of these things. Translated into English for the first time, this memoir truly captures the passionate spirit of a fantastic man.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-242).
- ISBN:
- 0195106733
- 0195106741
- OCLC:
- 37675819
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