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'He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.'
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach . . . Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican
ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert
Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in
preconquest colonial Mexico. In this volume: "Introduction," Susan
Schroeder; "Mexica Women on the Home Front," Louise M. Burkhart;
"Aztec Wives," Arthur J. O. Anderson; "Indian-Spanish Marriages in
the First Century of the Colony," Pedro Carrasco; "Gender and
Social Identity," Rebecca Horn; "From Parallel and Equivalent to
Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Mexica Women, 1500-1700," Susan
Kellogg; "Activist or Adulteress/ The Life and Struggle of Dona
Josefa Mara of Tepoztlan," Robert Haskett; "Matters of Life at
Death," Stephanie Wood; "Mixteca Cacicas," Ronald Spores; "Women
and Crime in Colonial Oaxaca," Lisa Mary Sousa; "Women, Rebellion,
and the Moral Economy of Maya Peasants in Colonial Mexico," Kevin
Gosner; "Work, Marriage, and Status: Maya Women of Colonial
Yucatan," Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew Restall; "Double
Jeopardy," Susan M. Deeds; "Women's Voices from the Frontier,"
Leslie S. Offutt; "Rethinking Malinche," Frances Karttunen;
"Concluding Remarks," Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett. Susan
Schroeder is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago.
Stephanie Wood is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of
Women in Society at the University of Oregon. She is coeditor of
Indian Women of Early Mexico, also published by the University of
Oklahoma Press. Robert Haskett is Professor of History at the
University of Oregon."
Columbus arrived on North American shores in 1492, and Cortes
had replaced Moctezuma, the Aztec Nahua emperor, as the major
figurehead in central Mexico by 1521. Five centuries later, the
convergence of "old" and "new" worlds and the consequences of
colonization continue to fascinate and horrify us. In "Transcending
Conquest," Stephanie Wood uses Nahuatl writings and illustrations
to reveal Nahua perspectives on Spanish colonial occupation of the
Western Hemisphere.
Mesoamerican peoples have a strong tradition of pictorial record
keeping, and out of respect for this tradition, Wood examines
multiple examples of pictorial imagery to explore how Native
manuscripts have depicted the European invader and colonizer. She
has combed national and provincial archives in Mexico and visited
some of the Nahua communities of central Mexico to collect and
translate Native texts. Analyzing and interpreting changes in
indigenous views and attitudes throughout three hundred years of
foreign rule, Wood considers variations in perspectives--between
the indigenous elite and the laboring classes, and between those
who resisted and those who allied themselves with the European
intruders.
"Transcending Conquest "goes beyond the familiar voices recorded
by scribes in central colonial Mexico and the Spanish conquerors to
include indigenous views from the outlying Mesoamerican provinces
and to explore Native historical narratives from the sixteenth
through the eighteenth century. Wood explores how evolving
sentiments in indigenous communities about increasing competition
for resources ultimately resulted in an anti-Spanish discourse, a
trend largely overlooked by scholars--until now. "Transcending
Conquest" takes us beyond the romantic focus on the deeds of the
Spanish conqueror to show how the so-called "conquest" was limited
by the ways that Native peoples and their descendants reshaped the
historical narrative to better suit their memories, identities, and
visions of the future.
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