1492–1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing
Ed. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini
Underscores the importance of writing as companion of empire, while at the same time highlighting its subversive power as a series of counter-narratives emerge to contest the tactics and values of the "victors."
Introduction
Allegorizing the New World
René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini
- Literacy and Colonization: The New World Experience
Walter Mignolo - Narration and Argumentation in the Chronicles of the New World
Antonio Gómez-Moriana - Silence and Writing: The History of Conquest
Beatriz Pastor - The Apprehension of the New in Nature and Culture: Fernando de Oveido’s Sumario
Stephanie Merrim - Arms, Letters and the Native Historian in Early Colonial Mexico
Rolena Adorno - Montaigne and the Indies: Cartographies of the New World
Tom Conley - Utopian Ethnology in Las Casas’s Apologética
José Rabasa - The Early Stages of Latin American Historiography
Beatriz González - Representing the Colonial Subject
Iris Zavala - The Inscription of Creole Consciousness: Fray Servando de Mier
René Jara
Appendix: Documenting the Conquest
- The Charter of Admiral Colombia (17 April 1492)
- Instructions from the Sovereigns to Columbus (29 May 1493)
- Article of the Testament of the Queen Our Lady Isabella
- Instruction from Diego Velázquez to Cortés (23 October 1510)
- Against those who deprecate or contradict the Bull and Decree of Pope Alexander VI