Böcker av Jose Rabasa

Argues that Columbus's historic act was the beginning of a process of inventing a new world in the 16th-century European consciousness. Using relevant texts, Rabasa shows how European missionaries and men of letters invented America as "the Other", whilst defining Europe as "the Self".

This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter's perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.

Examines the conjunction between writing and violence that defined the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Americas (particularly North America) and in doing so, reveals why this conjunction remains relevant and influential today.