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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabasa, José, 1948-

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominicans--Missions--Mexico--History.

Dominicans.

Franciscans--Missions--Mexico--History.

Franciscans.

Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

Aztec art.

Aztecs--Missions.

Aztecs.

Nahuatl language--Writing.

Nahuatl language.

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

Mexico.

Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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, Josâe 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 intuition), 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.

Contents:

Overture

Reading Folio 46r

Depicting Perspective

The Dispute Of The Friars

Topologies Of Conquest

"Tell Me The Story Of How I Conquered You"

The Entrails Of Periodization

(In)Comparable Worlds

Elsewheres.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292742536

0292742533

9780292735460

0292735464

OCLC:

767806868

Publisher Number:

heb40165 hdl