Description: Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru, Paperback by Duenas, Alcira, ISBN 1607329395, ISBN-13 9781607329398, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration. Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies.
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Book Title: Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice,
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, Asian / Indic, General, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / General, Latin America / South America, Native American
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 15.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Education, History
Author: Alcira Duenas
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
