Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier,9780822325352

Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier

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ISBN13: 9780822325352
ISBN10: 0822325357
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"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

Table of Contents

About the Series ix
List of Figures
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
On Writing Violence: An Introduction 1(30)
Reading Cabeza de Vaca, or How We Perpetuate the Culture of Conquest
31(53)
The Mediation of the Law in the New Mexico Corpus, 1539--1610
84(54)
Aesthetics of Colonial Violence: The Massacre of Acoma in Gaspar de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico
138(21)
Violence in de Soto Narratives: Moralistic Terrorism in Oviedo's Historia general
159(40)
``Porque soy indio'': Subjectivity in Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca
199(27)
Of Massacre and Representation: Painting Hatred and Ceremonies of Possession in Protestant Anti-Spanish Pamphleteering
226(49)
Epilogue: Before History 275(10)
Abbreviations 285(2)
Notes 287(34)
Bibliography 321(32)
Index 353

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