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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The colonialist West has spoken for New Mexico since 1540 when
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado traveled to Acoma Pueblo in his
search for the legendary cities of gold. With the Spanish
incursion, followed fifty-six years later by the first
English-speaking colonists in New Mexico, began the representation
of New Mexico from an outsider's perspective. The colonial West
imagined itself to hold central claims to knowledge, so it knew its
peripheries only as it encountered and articulated their presence
to itself. This Western narrative, based on an imagined Western
privilege to foundational or platonic knowledge, has become the
dominant Euro-American discourse through which New Mexico has come
to be known. The comparative study of this collection of travel and
contact narratives traces the enforcement of--and resistance
to--the Western myth of the Euro-American and European as
normative, as well as the Hispanic and the native as Other. The
author ably introduces the platonic quest as a new unifying thread
that links each of these travel narratives to his argument that
identity and claims to knowledge may be tested, recovered, or
created in movement within New Mexico. The platonic journey has
mostly been understood as an intellectual journey toward truth.
This study expands upon the platonic journey to show that it may
also, like the quest, be played out in geographical space. Travel
Narratives from New Mexico will be a very valuable resource for
students and scholars of literature, especially of the American
Southwest and travel theory.
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