Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier the Historiography of Sixteenth Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest
- List Price: $107.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/2000
To advance his argument Rabasa analyzes visual and verbal representations, colonialist programs, and the theories of colonization that informed the historiography of sixteenth-century New Mexico and Florida, which included the territory from the Pacific coast to Kansas, and from present-day Florida to Tennessee and Arkansas. Using little-known materials from the northern borderlands of Spanish imperial expansion, Rabasa works to complicate notions of violence and their relationship to writing. Understood in juxtaposition with modern texts on postcolonial theory, his description of the dual function of these colonial texts -- to represent material acts of violence and to act as violence itself -- also emphasizes the lingering effects of this phenomenon in contemporary intellectual work and everyday life. In this way Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier serves not only as an explanation of what colonialist texts do butalso instigates new ways of thinking about colonial discourse.
This book will interest scholars of colonial studies and early North American history, as well as a broader audience interested in literary or interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of racial and ethnic violence.
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