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Associate Professor Spanish American Literature
Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures
College
of Letters and Sciences
800 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901-8693
Phone: (920) 424 - 7293; Fax: (920) 424 - 7289
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Field of Research: Colonial Latin American
Studies
I am interested in the
relationship between Mesoamerican cultural Indigenous heterogeneity and
colonial transculturation in the chronicles of
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.
Current Book Project
Proyecciones
y reflexiones mexica-tenochca en la colonia: El
caso de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc. (Mexica-Tenochca
Projections and Reflections in the Colonial Period: The Case of Hernando de Alvardo Tezozomoc). In
this work I highlight the historical context of sixteenth-century New Spain
to shed light on the complexities of indigenous historical narrative
production. By studying a wide variety of documents such as letters,
land tenure disputes and historical narratives of indigenous writers, as well
as pre-Hispanic material culture and historical registers, I examine Hernando
de Alvarado Tezozomoc’s Crónica
mexicana and Crónica mexicayotl, written in Spanish and Nahuatl
respectively. On the one hand, his texts exemplify the implementation
of autochthonous cultural survival practices engendered by the colonial
situation at both an individual and corporate level; on the other, they
reveal the organization of indigenous historical registers and memory which
can be traced in land tenure documents as late as the eighteenth century.
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