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Book Reviews For example, how an event was depicted in colonial texts such as Gaspar de Villagráâs account of the Acoma massacre of 1599 in Historia de la Nueva México could contribute to the culture of conquest. Through diï¬erent rhetorical strategies, these texts create such a distance between those who suï¬ered at the hands of conquistadors and missionaries and those who read accounts of their suï¬ering that they prevent the audience from empathizing with indigenous peoples. Audiences might even derive pleasure from extreme accounts of violence, because the materiality of pain is never conveyed and colonial authors employed ââa whole series of epic topoiââ to draw the readerâs attention away from human suï¬ering (such as portraying the vanquished as impotent, thus justifying violence against them by more ââvirileââ forces) (145). Rabasaâs argument that texts have material eï¬ects is a provocative one. I wondered, however, about audience: Wouldnât texts like Villagráâs Historia de la Nueva México have to be widely read to shape, in a sense, the collective consciousness of colonizers in such a way that violence toward native populations was the result? Who in the New World read Villagrá at the time of its publication? It seems that
Ethnohistory – Duke University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2004
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