Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier - The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest

"Rabasa provides a compelling understanding of the cultural worlds of the Spanish conquerors as they collided violently with Native Americans in the contact zones--in Florida, California, Texas, Chile, and Argentina. In so doing he devastates the rationales underlying violence in sixteenth century Spanish history and fiction, and thus challenges the readers to reconsider the rationales by which English and American settlers inhabited the West, and which they called 'frontier violence.' "--Patricia Seed, Rice University

List of contents

About the Series

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

On Writing Violence: An Introduction

1. Reading Cabeza de Vaca, or How We Perpetuate the Culture of Conquest

2. The Mediation of the Law in the New Mexico Corpus, 1539–1609
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3. Aesthetics of Colonial Violence: The Massacre of Acoma in Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México

4. Violence in de Soto Narratives: Moralistic Terrorism in Oviedo’s Historia general
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5. “Porque soy indio”: Subjectivity in Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca

6. Of Massacre and Representation: Painting Hatred and Ceremonies of Possession in Protestant Anti-Spanish Pamphleteering

Epilogue: Before Histories

Abreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

José Rabasa is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism.

Summary

Examines the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, reveals why this conjunction remains relevant and influential today.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Rabasa, Rabasa, Jose Rabasa, José Rabasa
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2000
• EAN: 9780822325352
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2535-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Florida, New Mexico, Amerikanische Geschichte, 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.), Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie