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The colonialist West has spoken for New Mexico since 1540 when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado traveled to Acoma Pueblo in his search for the legendary cities of gold. With the Spanish incursion, followed fifty-six years later by the first English-speaking colonists in New Mexico, began the representation of New Mexico from an outsider's perspective. The colonial West imagined itself to hold central claims to knowledge, so it knew its peripheries only as it encountered and articulated their presence to itself. This Western narrative, based on an imagined Western privilege to foundational or platonic knowledge, has become the dominant Euro-American discourse through which New Mexico has come to be known. History is not a stable narrative of the past, but a fluid collection of competing narratives that continues to change and expand as it is revisited. Through a postcolonial lens, this study negotiates travel and encounter narratives that imagine and re-imagine New Mexico during one of its most dynamic shifts in identity: from the mid-nineteenth century (when the United States conquered Mexico and made New Mexico a U.S. territory) to the mid-twentieth century (when the Native American

Author

Dean, John Emory

Publisher

Amherst, NY: Cambria Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781624992179

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History