Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World

by José Rabasa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292747616
• ISBN13: 9780292747616
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"