Rereading the Conquest

By James Krippner-Martnez

Subjects: Michoacan de ocampo (mexico), Purépecha Indians, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Tarasques, Indians of Mexico, HISTORY, Histoire, Historiographie, Historiography, Kolonialismus, Kolonialisme, Tarasco Indians, Missions, History, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540

Description: "Combining social history with literary criticism, James Krippner-Martinez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan, and of later writings using them, can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.". "The book offers a fresh look at religion, politics, and the writing of history by employing a poststructuralist method that engages the exclusions as well as the content of the historical record. The moments of doubt, contradiction, and ambiguity thereby uncovered lead to deconstructing a coherent conquest narrative that continues to resonate in our present age."--BOOK JACKET.