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Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.
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These cultural excursions into the "conflicted yet enamored history" of Mexican American interchange sporadically catch fire, but more often they're too thinly researched and too dense with theory to do more than set off sparks. It's not for lack of subject matter. Limón, a professor of English and anthropology, is interested in how everything from the meteoric rises of Texas politicians Henry Cisneros and Ann Richards to the fiction of Cormac McCarthy speaks to a complicated history of border crossings and power politics. In the face of repeated Anglo romanticization of Mexico as sensual and fatalistic, he wonders, how can artists and intellectuals on both sides of this divide present affirmative imagery? Limón finds answers in the fiction of Katherine Anne Porter, such classic Westerns as High Noon and Southwestern kitsch as expressed in the ballad "El Paso," in whose cross-cultural love affair he discerns "a kind of victory for that culture and its people at a time when such recognitions were few and far between." Yet only his discussion of the career of pop singer Selena ("at a moment of absolute perceived political failure," she provided "the only remaining possibility of freedom and triumph with integrity") fully supports his arguments. Some readers will enjoy the author's theoretical play, but others will prefer an interpretation capable of more than suggestion. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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The prevalent understanding of the Spanish Conquest is that of foreign conquerors summarily annihilating native populations and usurping their culture. This collection of firsthand Mayan documents (late 1500s through early 1800s) presents a different viewpoint and reveals a story of adaptation and survival. The Mayan viewpoint arises from an identity that is based on strong allegiances of class, family, and community. Recounting the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan peninsula, these native writings reflect a perception not of a single event but of a cluster of foretold events taking place within a concept of time that is cyclical rather than linear. The documents, including petitions to Spanish officials, "primordial titles" promoting political and territorial interests of the community, and letters to the Spanish king, were authored by Mayan noblemen who were both agents of colonial rule and also subject to it. Restall's careful analysis and annotations are indispensable. --Grace Fill
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Restall's revisionist analysis and collection of translated documents places the imposition of Spanish rule in Yucatan within a broad context of earlier Maya experience. Using Yucatec Maya sources, Restall, an ethnohistorian, emphasizes that the Conquest continued throughout the colonial period. He demonstrates convincingly the vitality of the colonial Maya and that their historical perceptions placed the calamitous arrival of the Spaniards within a framework marked by other calamities and historical continuities. Thus the Spanish Conquest brought new participants into old rivalries. Maya conquistadors were allies of the Spaniards who gained status from their service while paradoxically denying the Spanish conception of a Conquest achieved by 1545. Part 2 of the book presents translations of eight Maya accounts of the Conquest and underscores the Maya's varied perspectives on the experience. In introducing each text, Restall employs his formidable linguistic understanding of the documentary sources, knowledge of relevant secondary materials, and sophisticated appreciation of Maya society. This fresh, readable work is an essential purchase for all academic libraries and a mandatory purchase for public libraries with any holdings on the colonial Maya. All levels. M. A. Burkholder; University of Missouri--St. Louis