The work of Bartolome de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in
the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a
sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives,
understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the
apparent contradictions among his evangelizing and his varying
stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays
gathered in this volume show teachers how to introduce and engage
with Las Casas--one of the first voices to criticize European
treatment of the native populations of the Americas and crucial
today to studies of imperialism, colonialism, and human rights--in
a wide range of courses, undergraduate and graduate.
Like all volumes in the Approaches series, this collection
includes a convenient survey of original and supplementary
materials and a comprehensive array of classroom tactics. The first
group of essays incorporates Las Casas into the interdisciplinary
classroom, while the next group focuses on teaching the Las Casas
text most widely used in literature courses: the Brevisima relacion
de la destruccion de las Indias, a dramatic, largely firsthand view
of colonial violence. The essays that follow explore the Spanish
friar's letters, treatises, and petitions to the Crown; locate his
connection to such broader issues as independence movements in
Latin America, inter-European politics, abolition, and human
rights; and suggest ways of teaching him alongside colonial figures
such as Christopher Columbus and within the literary traditions of
a variety of nations and languages.
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