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The Conquest All Over Again
Nahuas and Zapotecs Thinking, Writing, and Painting Spanish Colonialism
In the series:
First Nations and the Colonial Encounter
| Susan Schroeder |
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| Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles about intellectualism, religion, resistance, society, politics, and women in colonial Nahua Mesoamerica. She is the co-editor and co-translator (with Arthur J.O. Anderson) of the Codex Chimalpahin and general editor of the Series Chimalpahin.
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The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest
and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples
in colonial Mesoamerica continued to write and paint their histories
and lives often without any mention of the foreigners in their midst.
Their accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises,
tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousands of documents
were produced, almost all of which served to preserve indigenous
ways of doing things. But what provoked record keeping on such a
grand scale? At what point did precontact sacred writing become
utilitarian and quotidian? Were their texts documentaries, a form
of boosterism, even ingenious intellectualism, or were they ultimately
a literature of ruin? This volume seeks to address key aspects of
indigenous perspectives of the conquest and Spanish colonialism
by examining what they themselves recorded and why they did so.
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Introduction
Susan Schroeder
1 Three Views of the Conquest of Mexico from
the Other Mexica
Kevin Terraciano
2 Visual Persuasion: Sixteenth-Century Tlaxcalan
Pictorials in Response to the Conquest of Mexico
Travis Barton Kranz
3 The Destruction of Jerusalem as Colonial
Nahuatl Historical Drama
Louise M. Burkhart
4 Chimalpahin Rewrites the Conquest: Yet
Another Epic History?
Susan Schroeder
5 Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s
Narratives of the Conquest of Mexico: Colonial Subjectivity
and the Circulation of Native Knowledge
Amber Brian
6 Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza
and the Notion of a Nahua Identity
Camilla Townsend
7 “Perhaps our Lord, God, has Forgotten
Me”: Intruding into the Colonial Nahua (Aztec) Confessional
Barry D. Sell
8 Representations of Spanish Authority in
Zapotec Calendrical and Historical Genres
David Tavárez
9 Conquering the Spiritual Conquest in Cuernavaca
Robert Haskett
About the Contributors
Index
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“Historical research and writing
on the native peoples of Mesoamerica have been transformed over
the past two decades by the increasing use – sometimes
including discovery – of native language documents prepared
by native communities and individuals. This has been an especially
rich resource for writing the colonial history of Nahua, Maya,
and Mixtec peoples, and thus for a rewriting of the history
of the cultural encounter between American cultures and Spanish
colonialism itself. In this pathbreaking volume, Susan Schroeder
and her colleagues ‘unpick’ this native cultural
treasury and historiography, and thereby reveal the indigenous
perspective on the Spaniards’ invasion of America through
their own testimonies, representations and perspectives.”
From the Preface by First Nations Series Editor, David Cahill,
University of New South Wales
“Susan Schroeder’s edited work balances the history
of the Spanish conquest of Mexico by presenting an indigenous
voice from the past and, at the same time, reawakens a historiographical
debate about the extremes of the Spanish Black Legend stereotypes
that reached its high point in academia in the 1960s. In the
Preface, David Cahill explains that “Historical research and
writing on the native peoples of Mesoamerica have been transformed
over the past two decades by the increasing use – sometimes
including discovery – of native language documents, prepared
by native communities and individuals. This has been an especially
rich resource for writing the colonial history of Nahua, Maya,
and Mixtec peoples. The Nahua peoples in colonial Mesoamerica
continued to write and paint their histories and lives, often
without any mention of the foreigners in their midst. Their
accounts took the form of annals, chronicles, religious treatises,
tribute accounts, theatre pieces, and wills. Thousands of documents
were produced, almost all of which served to preserve Nahua
ways of doing things. In this path-breaking volume, Susan Schroeder
and her colleagues ‘unpick’ this native cultural treasury and
historiography, and thereby reveal the indigenous perspective
on the Spaniards’ invasion of America through what they themselves
recorded” (pp. xii–xiii). The authors of the essays in
this volume have effectively used such sources in presenting
the views of the conquered through the works of Nahua and Zapotec
record keepers. This book is highly recommended to those who
wish to gain a much needed perspective of the European conquest
of the Americas.” Colonial Latin American Historical
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Publication Details
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Hardback ISBN: |
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978-1-84519-299-0 |
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Paperback ISBN: |
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978-1-84519-475-8 |
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272 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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Release Date: |
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July 2010 |
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Illustrated: |
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Yes |
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Hardback Price: |
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£65.00 / $94.95 |
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Paperback Price: |
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£25.00 / $39.95 |
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