Tell me the story of how I conquered you : elsewheres and ethnosuicide in the colonial Mesoamerican world / by José Rabasa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabasa, José, 1948-

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominicans.

Franciscans.

Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

Colonies.

Administration.

Missions.

History.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Aztec art.

Nahuatl language--Writing.

Nahuatl language.

Aztecs--Missions.

Aztecs.

Franciscans--Missions--Mexico--History.

Dominicans--Missions--Mexico--History.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Spain.

America.

Physical Description:

xii, 264 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2011]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Overture 1

Chapter 2 Reading Folio 46r 18

Chapter 3 Depicting Perspective 37

Chapter 4 The Dispute Of The Friars 56

Chapter 5 Topologies Of Conquest 91

Chapter 6 "Tell Me The Story Of How I Conquered You" 106

Chapter 7 The Entrails Of Periodization 130

Chapter 8 (In)Comparable Worlds 162

Chapter 9 Elsewheres 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292728752

0292728751

OCLC:

701622801