Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World – $465
by rgonzalezr
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 which this rich document emerged. Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation […]
Categories: Historia, Ilustrado, Teoría • Tags: 2012, Americas, Codex, Jose Rabasa, México, Mesoamerica, postcolonial, Prehispanic, Spanish Conquest, Theory, University of Texas Press