Author
Mario Cesareo
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Published
December 1995
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By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. The material excess of the colonial world, experienced as a capricious parade of signs, masks, objects, races, languages, and bodies subjected to European exploitation, presented a problem of the first magnitude for Christian missionaries. In order to render intelligible the incongruities of the colonial experience, the missionary turned the materiality of the Indian and the black body of the slave into God's privileged instruments for revelation. Materiality, in its remotest minutiae, became understood as an enigmatic system of signs, as a divine riddle to be discerned. The attempts to recognize, elaborate, and synthesize this new experience constitute the Christian herme-neutics that is the focus of the study. The book posits the existence of a repertoire of stances through which the missionary was able to represent, perform, and theorize the colonial experience. In this social sensibility, the body emerges as a privileged locus for the aesthetic, theoretic, and practical experimentation that allowed the missionary to carry on his utopian ideals within the imperialist workings of European mercantilism.
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Author
Mario Cesareo
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Published
December 1995
Weight
459g
Page Count
213
Dimensions
160 x 237 x 18 mm
ISBN
9781557530752
ISBN-10
1557530750
Eden Code
1177841
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Author/Creator: Mario Cesareo
ISBN: 9781557530752
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date: December 1995
Weight: 459g
Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 18 mm
Eden Code: 1177841
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