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For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans
using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization)
that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native
Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges
European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and
experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern
Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has
ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while
detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and
proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on
this time and place.
For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans
using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization)
that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native
Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges
European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and
experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern
Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has
ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while
detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and
proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on
this time and place.
Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's
national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of
citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid
and the multifarious ways in which he is visualized. From
illuminations in medieval manuscripts to illustrations in
twenty-first-century editions, depictions of the Cid vary widely,
revealing just how much Spain's national identity has transformed
throughout the centuries. Uncovering the racial, gendered, and
political impacts of one of Spain's most legendary heroes,
Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today traces the development of more
than five centuries of illustrations and problematizes their
reception and circulation in Spain and abroad. By documenting the
evolution of visual representations of the Cid, their artists, and
their targeted readerships, Lauren Beck also uncovers how his
legend became a national projection of Spanish identity, one that
was shaped by foreign hands and even manipulated into propaganda by
the country's most recent dictator, Francisco Franco. Through
detailed analysis, Beck unsettles the presumption that chivalric
masculinity dominated the Cid's visualization, and points to how
women were represented with increasing modesty as readerships
became younger in modern times. An unprecedented exploration of
Spanish visual history, Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today yields
thought-provoking insights about the powerful ways in which
illustration shapes representations of gender, identity, and
ethnicity.
*Includes rare color images. This book demonstrates the evolution
of Spain's conceptualisation of its enemies, from biblical and
Roman times to the early modern period, and it also illustrates how
this transformative discourse became exercised upon Spain by its
own enemies in Europe. Each chapter contributes to the study of
multiplicity as both a problem to be studied as well as a scholarly
methodology that anticipates the structure of the problem. This
book is divided into three thematic sections, the first of which
establishes the medieval roots for representing Spain's early
modern enemies. The two chapters that compose this section
respectively explore the naming and visualization of an enemy that
was almost entirely Muslim. The second section of this book
contains two chapters that explore the textual and visual
references to Islam in the Americas during the conquest and early
in the period of colonization. The last section of this book
contrasts the quality of information conveyed by archival and
mass-produced texts. The first of two chapters notes that Muslims
indeed did come to the Spanish Americas in the early modern period.
The archival research prepared for this chapter contrasts with the
mass-produced images and texts in the last chapter, and it is
argued that different qualities of information are communicated by
mass-produced, and therefore shaped, discourse, rather than by
uncirculated, unarticulated texts. That is, out of the archives, a
different picture of Islam in the Americas emerges. The final
chapter examines how Spanish-authored chronicles became transformed
through translation, and with the attachment of new illustrations,
into propagandistic tools designed to undermine Spanish conquest
and claims on land. This book identifies and illustrates the
discourse imposed upon Spain's enemies, and demonstrates how other
Europeans used that same discourse to de-Occidentalize, disparage
and criticize Spanish activities in the early modern period. Each
chapter explores the implications of textual and visual
multiplicity while questioning the impact multiplicity has had on
the conceptualization of the conquest in more modern times.
Scholars of history and literature will appreciate different
aspects of this book's arguments. The former will encounter
in-depth and copious archival sources about the conquest and its
related themes, whereas the latter will enjoy the text-image and
literary analysis of those aforementioned sources.
Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's
national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of
citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid
and the multifarious ways in which he is visualized. From
illuminations in medieval manuscripts to illustrations in
twenty-first-century editions, depictions of the Cid vary widely,
revealing just how much Spain's national identity has transformed
throughout the centuries. Uncovering the racial, gendered, and
political impacts of one of Spain's most legendary heroes,
Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today traces the development of more
than five centuries of illustrations and problematizes their
reception and circulation in Spain and abroad. By documenting the
evolution of visual representations of the Cid, their artists, and
their targeted readerships, Lauren Beck also uncovers how his
legend became a national projection of Spanish identity, one that
was shaped by foreign hands and even manipulated into propaganda by
the country's most recent dictator, Francisco Franco. Through
detailed analysis, Beck unsettles the presumption that chivalric
masculinity dominated the Cid's visualization, and points to how
women were represented with increasing modesty as readerships
became younger in modern times. An unprecedented exploration of
Spanish visual history, Illustrating El Cid, 1498 to Today yields
thought-provoking insights about the powerful ways in which
illustration shapes representations of gender, identity, and
ethnicity.
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a
wealth of visual materials. These documents provide viewers with a
mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world
was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a
period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature.
The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question:
how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge
imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial
products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning?
The twelve contributors to this collection go beyond traditional
lines of inquiry into word-and-image interaction to deconstruct
visual dynamics and politics-to show how images were shaped,
manipulated, displayed, and distributed to represent the material
world, to propagate official and commercial messages, to support
religious practice and ideology, or to embody relations of power.
These chapters are anchored in various theoretical and disciplinary
points of departure, such as the history of collections and
collecting, literary theory and criticism, the histories of
science, art history and visual culture, word-and-image studies, as
well as print culture and book illustration. Authors draw upon a
wide range of visual material hitherto insufficiently explored and
placed in context, in some cases hidden in museums and archives, or
previously assessed only from a disciplinary standpoint that
favored either the image or the text but not both in relation to
each other. They include manuscript illuminations representing
compilers and collections, frontispieces and other accompanying
plates published in catalogues and museographies, astronomical
diagrams, mixed pictographic-alphabetic accounting documents,
Spanish baroque paintings, illustrative frontispieces or series
inspired by or designed for single novels or anthologies,
anatomical drawings featured in encyclopedic publications, visual
patterns of volcanic formations, engravings representing the New
World that accompany non-fictional travelogues, commonplace books
that interlace text and images, and graphic satire. Geographically,
the collection covers imperial centers (Great Britain, France, the
Netherlands, and Spain), as well as their colonial periphery (New
France; Mexico; Central America; South America, in particular
Brazil; parts of Africa; and the island of Ceylon). Emblematic and
thought-provoking, these images are only fragments of the
multifaceted and comprehensive visual mosaic created during the
early modern period, but their consideration has far reaching
implications.
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