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Cruzados Martires Y Beatos: Emplazamientos del Cuerpo Colonial (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) (Vol 9)
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Description for Cruzados Martires Y Beatos: Emplazamientos del Cuerpo Colonial (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) (Vol 9)
By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial experience, the missionary turned the materiality of the Indian and the black body of the slave into God's ... Read more
By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial experience, the missionary turned the materiality of the Indian and the black body of the slave into God's ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557530752
SKU
V9781557530752
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Ref
99-9
About Cesaro
Mario Cesareo Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota Vassar faculty since 1994 Mario Cesareo, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, holds a B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research and publications include Latin American colonial studies, Goden Age theatre, contemporary ... Read more
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