The conquest all over again
Subtitle: Nahuas and Zapotecs thinking, writing, and painting Spanish colonialism
By: edited by Susan Schroeder
Series: First nations and the colonial encounter
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781845192990
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan Schroeder; title: Three views of the conquest of Mexico from the other Mexica / Kevin Terraciano; title: Visual persuasion : sixteenth-century Tlaxcalan pictorials in response to the conquest of Mexico / Travis Barton Kranz; title: The destruction of Jerusalem as colonial Nahuatl historical drama / Louise M. Burkhart; title: Chimalpahin rewrites the conquest : yet another epic history? / Susan Schroeder; title: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's narratives of the conquest of Mexico : colonial subjectivity and the circulation of knowledge / Amber Brian; title: Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza and the notion of Nahua identity / Camilla Townsend; title: "Perhaps our Lord, God, has forgotten me" : intruding into the colonial Nahua (Aztec) confessional / Barry D. Sell; title: Representions of Spanish authority in Zapotec calendrical and historical genres / David Tavárez; title: Conquering the spiritual conquest in Cuernavaca / Robert Haskett.