Exemplary Violence
"Exemplary Violence makes an important contribution by putting Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero—long appreciated for its salacious anecdotes of sin in colonial society—in dialogue with lesser-known works by Pedro Simón and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Villate-Isaza offers new insights on their efforts to reinforce European cultural values and ideologies even as they grapple with the evident failures of evangelization and colonial government in New Granada."
Sarah Beckjord, author of Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Ch
In Discourse on Colonialism, AimE CEsaire asserts that colonization ultimately works to decivilize the colonizer, awakening baser, brutalizing, and dehumanizing instincts in him. In Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia, Villate-Isaza explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) - Pedro SimOn's Noticias historiales (1626), Juan RodrIguez Freile's El carnero (1636), and Lucas FernAndez de Piedrahita's Historia general (1676) - each of which reveals the colonizing elite's reliance on a constant threat of violence for sustaining colonial order. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 244
- ISBN
- 9781684482627
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"Exemplary Violence makes an important contribution by putting Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero—long appreciated for its salacious anecdotes of sin in colonial society—in dialogue with lesser-known works by Pedro Simón and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Villate-Isaza offers new insights on their efforts to reinforce European cultural values and ideologies even as they grapple with the evident failures of evangelization and colonial government in New Granada."
Sarah Beckjord, author of Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Ch
"Exemplary Violence offers a rigorous and innovative comparative analysis of three key figures in the literary colonial canon in Colombia: Fray Pedro Simón, Juan Rodríguez Freile, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Using the concept of baroque allegory, this book wisely explores the tension between culture and barbarism that inspired these authors to transform history in their attempt to overcome, in writing, the early crisis of the Spanish colonial discourse."
Rubén Sánchez-Godoy, author of El peor de los remedios: Bartolomé de Las Casas y la crítica temprana a la esclavitud Afri