Bøger af Jose Rabasa

Examines the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, reveals why this conjunction remains relevant and influential today.

Argues that Columbus's historic act was the beginning of a process of inventing a new world in the 16th-century European consciousness. Using relevant texts, Rabasa shows how European missionaries and men of letters invented America as "the Other", whilst defining Europe as "the Self".

This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter's perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.

On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred in a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. This work contrasts the accounts of the Acteal massacre and other events with state attempts to frame the past, control subaltern populations, and legitimatize its own authority.