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Indigenous Cultural Innovation in New Spain

Sat, May 25, 4:00 to 5:30pm, TBA

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Since the latter part of the twentieth century, an ever-growing body of scholarly literature has illuminated indigenous perspectives on wars of conquest, Christianization, and, indeed, all facets of life under the Spanish Viceroyalty. Scholarly translations of colonial texts produced in native languages, studies of indigenous pictorial manuscripts, narrative analyses, and archival investigations have added dimension to our understanding of these perspectives. This panel invites further investigation of indigenous textual production from New Spain, with a special focus on innovation in the arts, broadly conceived. How do native artists, performers, authors, or scribes innovate, e.g., in their uses of Mesoamerican or European genres and artistic forms; renderings of cultural narratives; expressions of sacred understanding during a period that was profoundly marked by zealous campaigns of evangelization; or representations of ancestral identities and prerogatives?

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