{"product_id":"exemplary-violence-rewriting-history-in-colonial-colombia-paperback-softback-9781684482610","title":"Exemplary Violence; Rewriting History in Colonial Colombia (Paperback \/ softback) 9781684482610","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExemplary Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRewriting History in Colonial Colombia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlberto Villate-Isaza (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684482610\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e244 pages, n-a\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExemplary Violence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rigorous and innovative comparative analysis of three key figures in the literary colonial canon in Colombia: Fray Pedro Simón, Juan Rodríguez Freile, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Using the concept of baroque allegory, this book wisely explores the tension between culture and barbarism that inspired these authors to transform history in their attempt to overcome, in writing, the early crisis of the Spanish colonial discourse.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Rubén Sánchez-Godoy, author of El peor de los remedios: Bartolomé de Las Casas y la crítica temprana a la esclavitud Afri\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExemplary Violence\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution by putting Juan Rodríguez Freile's \u003ci\u003eEl carnero\u003c\/i\u003e—long appreciated for its salacious anecdotes of sin in colonial society—in dialogue with lesser-known works by Pedro Simón and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Villate-Isaza offers new insights on their efforts to reinforce European cultural values and ideologies even as they grapple with the evident failures of evangelization and colonial government in New Granada.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Sarah Beckjord, author of Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Ch\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eExemplary Violence\u003c\/i\u003e explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts—Pedro Simón's \u003ci\u003eNoticias historiales\u003c\/i\u003e, Juan Rodríguez Freile's \u003ci\u003eEl carnero\u003c\/i\u003e, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's \u003ci\u003eHistoria general\u003c\/i\u003e—each of which reveals the colonizer's reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  PART I Narrative Tensions\u003cbr\u003e  1 A Rhetorical Balancing Act\u003cbr\u003e  2 Instructing through Negative Examples\u003cbr\u003e  3 Nudity Is the Disguise: Political and Moral Instruction\u003cbr\u003e  PART II Authority and Evasion\u003cbr\u003e  4 The Authority to Displace and Adapt the Past\u003cbr\u003e  5 Founding Principles\u003cbr\u003e  6 The Constant Threat of Beauty and Wealth\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633822167320,"sku":"9781684482610","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/exemplary-violence-rewriting-history-in-colonial-colombia-paperback-softback-9781684482610","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}