Invasion and Transformation

Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A. Jackson are assistant professors of art history at the University of Miami.

• Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Remembering the Legends: Moteuczoma, Cortes, and Malinche; 1. Meeting the Enemy: Moteuczoma and Cortes, Herod and the Magi; Louise M. Burkhart; 2. Blaming Moteuczoma: Anthropomorphizing the Aztec Conquest; Susan D. Gillespie; 3. The Hero as Rhetor: Hern n Cortes's Second and Third Letters to Charles V; Viviana Diaz Balsera; 4. Now You See Her, Now You Don't: Memory and the Politics of Identity Construction in Representations of Malinche; Constance Cortez; Part II. The Transformation of History: Painting the Conquest of Mexico; 5. Spanish Creation of the Conquest of Mexico; Matthew Restall; 6. The Conquest of Mexico and the Representation of Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain; Michael J. Schreffler; 7. Painting a New Era: Conquest, Prophecy, and the World to Come; Diana Magaloni Kerpel; Part III. Effects of Invasion: Death and Conquest; 8. Indian Autopsy and Epidemic Disease in Early Colonial Mexico; Martha Few; 9. Death during the Conquest Era; Ximena Ch vez Balderas; Part IV: Conquest of Mexico Paintings, the Kislak Collection, Library of Congress; 10. The Kislak Paintings and the Conquest of Mexico; Rebecca P. Brienen and Margaret A, Jackson; Works Cited; Index

"...provides exciting readings of indigenous rationalizations of the history of the Spanish invasion and the colonizers' effort to assert their sense of superiority in their allegiance to Spanish imperial expansion. Together, these essays successfully force the reader to question conventional readings of both Spanish and indigenous conquest narratives." -- Cristian Roa de la Carrera, University of Illinois at Chicago.