Dangerous Speech: A Social History Of Blasphemy In Colonial Mexico,Used

Dangerous Speech: A Social History Of Blasphemy In Colonial Mexico,Used

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Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico. This engaging social history examines the representation of blasphemy as a sin and a crime, and its repression by the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish colonists viewed blasphemy not only as an insult against God but also as a dangerous misrepresentation of the deity, which could call down his wrath in a ruinous assault on the imperial enterprise.Why then, asks VillaFlores, did Spaniards dare to blaspheme? Having mined the periods moral literaturephilosophical works as well as royal decrees and Inquisition treatises and trial records in Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives and research librariesVillaFlores deftly interweaves images of daily life in colonial Mexico with vivid descriptions of human interactions to illustrate the complexity of a culture profoundly influenced by the Catholic Church. In entertaining and sometimes horrifying vignettes, the reader comes face to face with individuals who used language to assert or manipulate their identities within that repressive society.VillaFlores offers an innovative interpretation of the social uses of blasphemous speech by focusing on specific groupsconquistadors, Spanish settlers, Spanish women, and slaves of both gendersas a lens to examine race, class, and gender relations in colonial Mexico. He finds that multiple motivations led people to resort to blasphemy through a gamut of practices ranging from catharsis and gender selffashioning to religious rejection and active resistance.Dangerous Speech is a valuable resource for students and scholars of colonialism, the social history of language, Mexican history, and the changing relations of gender, class, and ethnicity in colonial Latin America.

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