Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, by Karen F.?Anderson-Córdova

摘要

The arrival of Columbus remains one of the central themes in Caribbean history. This event and the subsequent imposition of colonial rule, however, have masked a chapter always seen as secondary: that of the indigenous peoples who lived and suffered through these events. These people not only were changed, but also devised ways of confronting the conquerors and colonization, surviving in the new environment and persisting in spite of the demographic disaster to influence our present moment. These are the arguments developed by Karen Anderson Córdova in Surviving Spanish Conquest in a brilliant and new reading of the impact of the colonizing experience.