Exemplary Violence : : Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia / / Alberto Villate-Isaza.
In his seminal essay Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire asserts that colonization ultimately works to decivilize the colonizer, awakening baser, brutalizing, and dehumanizing instincts. In this crucial new study, Villate-Isaza explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 p.) :; n-a |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I Narrative Tensions
- 1 A Rhetorical Balancing Act
- 2 Instructing through Negative Examples
- 3 Nudity Is the Disguise: Political and Moral Instruction
- PART II Authority and Evasion
- 4 The Authority to Displace and Adapt the Past
- 5 Founding Principles
- 6 The Constant Threat of Beauty and Wealth
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index