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Author Rabasa, José, 1948-

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

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description data file
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Language English.
Subject Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
Franciscans -- Missions -- Mexico -- History.
Franciscans.
Missions.
Mexico.
History.
Dominicans -- Missions -- Mexico -- History.
Dominicans.
Codex Telleriano-Remensis.
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Aztec art.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Aztec art.
Aztecs -- Missions.
Nahuatl language -- Writing.
Aztecs -- Missions.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
Aztecs.
Colonies.
America.
Administration.
Spain.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Colonies -- Administration.
Spanish colonies.
Chronological Term 1540-1810
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780292728752 0292728751 (DLC) 2011003824
ISBN 0292735464 (electronic book)
9780292735460 (electronic book)
9780292728752 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0292728751 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780292747616
0292747616
Sudoc No. Z UA380.8 R112TE