Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier

by Rabasa, Jose; Mignolo, Walter D.; Saldivar-Hull, Sonia; Silverblatt, Irene

• ISBN13: 9780822325673
• ISBN10: 0822325675
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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