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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: legacy of rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Historia de la nación chichimeca
  name:
    name part: Kauffmann, Leisa (Leisa A.)
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nmu
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this book, Leisa A. Kauffmann takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico's early chroniclers, Fernando de Alva Ixtilxochitl, a bilingual seventeenth-century historian from central Mexico. His writing, especially his portrayal of the great pre-Hispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl, influenced other canonical histories of Mexico and is still influential today. Many scholars who discuss Alva Ixtlilxochitl's writing focus on his personal and literary investment in the European classical tradition, but Kauffmann argues that his work needs to be read through the lens of Nahua cultural concepts and literary-historical precepts. She suggests that he is best understood in light of his ancestral ties to Tetzcoco's rulers and as a historian who worked within both Native and European traditions. By paying attention to his representation of rulership, Kauffmann demonstrates how the literary and symbolic worlds of the Nahua exist in allegorical but still discernible subtexts within the larger Spanish context of his writing.
  table of contents: From Tlatoque to Caciques : Nahua-Christian rulership in deed and word -- Constructing the Nahua-Christian universal history : rulers, emplotment, and chronotope -- Nezahualcoyotl as Tezcatlipoca : Alva Ixtlilxochitl's colonial Mexican trickster tale -- Nezahualcoyotl as Christian prince : crisis, tribute, and the rhetoric of exemplarity -- Conclusion: Rulers, rhetors, tricksters, and the composition of history.
  note: Leisa A. Kauffmann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de
      name part: 1578-1650
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de
      name part: 1578-1650
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Fernando de
      name part: 1578-1650
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of Texcoco
      name part: Nezahualcóyotl
      name part: 1402-1472
  subject:
    topic: Aztecs
    topic: Kings and rulers
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Christianity and politics
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Kings and rulers
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Nahuas
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Chichimecs
    topic: Historiography
  classification: F1219.73.A47 K38 2019
  classification: 972/.02092
  identifier: 9780826360373
  identifier: 0826360378
  identifier: 2018059039
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181218
    record change date: 20191021080225.0
    record identifier: in00004071189