Book Categories
|
Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy... |
Buy Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy... here, one of 750 Florida History books offered for sale at discount prices here in the history books section at R bookshop. There are currently 84132 history books in our history books section, and over 1,000,000 books listed in our book store. We greatly appreciate your patronage at R bookshop and look forward to offering you a large selection of great books at discount prices now and in the future. Thank you for shopping at R Bookshop!
|
You Are Here: Home > History Books > Florida History > Item 203
|
Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy...
|
by José Rabasa and José Rabasa
Sales Rank: 1018877
|
List Price: $24.95
$24.95
At Amazon
on 8-3-2008.
|
|
|
|
Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 359 pages
Published by: Duke University Press August 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822325675
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822325673
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
“Massively researched and richly learned, this memorable and highly provocative book from the distinguished author of Inventing America (1993) is a major contribution in showing how writing itself can be a form of violence. . . . Dense, nuanced, multilayered, this book, consistent with postmodernism, will mean whatever the reader brings to it. Recommended . . . as a work to be reckoned with.”
--D. W. Steeples, Choice
“[I]nsightful . . . .”
--F. Arturo Rosales, Western Historical Quarterly
“[B]orderlands historians or Latin Americanists interested in the applications of postmodern literary theory to historical documents will find Rabasa’s work intriguing.”
--Dedra S. McDonald, The Journal of American History
“[A]n important contribution to critical thinking about early-modern European colonialism in the Americas . . . . Rabasa is to be commended for having painstakingly and penetratingly analyzed actual articulations of legal norms in the configuration of a series of important historias and relaciones. At the same time, he has brought into focus the history of conflicts between Spanish colonialist expeditions and native peoples of North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . . Writing Violence constitutes a significant intervention in current debates about the project of subaltern studies and its critical potential as a counterpoint to hegemonic liberal and conservative models of historiography.”
--Antony Higgins, Nepantla
“[Interesting and worth reading. . . .”
--Robert H. Jackson, Scouthwestern Historical Quarterly
“This complex and passionate book does justice to the painful history it examines.”
--Kathleen Ross, Hispanic American Historical Review
“The theoretical breath and historiographical scope of Writing Violence reaches far beyond the Northern Frontier of Spanish colonial expansion in America. This book should thus have wide and important repercussions across the human sciences. But it will be of necessary importance to students of empire and coloniality as present and ongoing enterprises.”
--Sara Castro-Klarén, Modern Language Notes
“[I]t is Rabasa’s willful engagement with postcolonial theory (as a perspective that neither privileges European culture as its referential framework nor accepts the idea that colonization carried civilization) that makes this text so useful to historians, especially U.S. historians who often avoid the postcolonial question. Furthermore, Rabasa’s critique of the various legalistic supports for conquest and the representation of conquest in what is now New Mexico and Florida are invaluable for historians of those regions. Instead of being at the far outer edges of the Spanish empire, both regions are at the center of, and critical in, the Spanish colonial project. It is on the violent edges of empire that the workings of colonialism and its various neocolonial forms of today, can best, if brutally, be seen.”
--Lance R. Blyth, Florida Historical Quarterly
“[Rabasa's] book will inform and intrigue both historians of colonialism and scholars of colonial literature.”
--Charlotte M. Gradie, H-Net Reviews
"Rabasa’s essays provide thoughtful interpretations."
--Cynthia Radding, American Historical Review
"[F]ascinating. . . . [L]eaves readers hungry for more. . . ."
--Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Sixteenth Century Journal
"[The book has] brilliant insight, a gorgeous lesson."
--Dana D. Nelson, American Literary History
"[A] much needed contribution to the neglected field of colonial Spanish chronicles of the present-day United States."
--Charles B. Moore, South Atlantic Review
“Massively researched and richly learned, this memorable and highly provocative book from the distinguished author of Inventing America (1993) is a major contribution in showing how writing itself can be a form of violence. . . . Dense, nuanced, multilayered, this book, consistent with postmodernism, will mean whatever the reader brings to it. Recommended . . . as a work to be reckoned with.”
--D. W. Steeples, Choice
"[R]ewarding. . . ."
--Edward W. Osowski, Canadian Journal of History
"Rabasa's dense argument but reasonably accessible writing style offers an interpretation and critique from which historians and anthropologists interested in the period of contact and conquest can learn."
--Susan Kellogg, Latin American Research Review
"The essays are thought-provoking pieces. . . . Without a doubt, Rabasa's well-written book is engaging and challenges the reader to negotiate the fine line between interpretations expressed historiographically and history itself."
--Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"While Rabasa weaves a complex array of discourses from many disciplines and critical approaches, he uses them to argue clearly that writing becomes an act of violence. . . . Assessments of Spain's evolving legal codes as subtext for historical writing, Inca Garcilaso's proposal of an alternate historiography, and showing how writing produces subalternity, are among the significant achievements of Writing Violence."
--Gregory Shepherd, The Latin Americanist
"Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier is an important work, and its significance for scholars researching the colonial era should not be underestimated."
--Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, New Mexico Historical Review
Product Description
In Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier José Rabasa looks at the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, he reveals why this conjunction remains relevent and influential today. Rabasa elaborates a critique of Spanish legislation that prescribed forms of converting Indians to Christianity and subjecting them to Spanish rule, which was referred to by some as “peaceful conquest.” He argues that the oxymoronic nature of this term demands an oppositional mode of inquiry based on an understanding of violence that expands beyond acts of war to include symbolism, interpretation, legislation, and other speech acts that he refers to as the “force of law.”
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 includes 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 but also 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 interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic of racial, ethnic, and literary violences.
Back To Top
|
Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy...
Available from Amazon
Price: $24.95
Updated on 8-3-2008.
|
NOTICE: All prices, availability, and specifications
are subject to verification by their respective retailers.
| We offer Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexico and Florida and the Legacy... and other related Florida History Books here at Rbookshop.com. To view more books about Florida History please use the previous and next buttons near the top of this page.
|
|
|
Search for books at
