Wed Mar28: Genaro Padilla on Colonial history

Via ASNM, “Reading a Spanish Colonial Epic from a Chicano Context: Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, 1610” at 12:00 PM March 28, 2012, Hibben Center, Room 105 

UC Berkeley associate dean, Chicano literary critic, and NM native Genaro Padilla will be delivering a talk tomorrow.  His book "The Daring Flight of My Pen" was recently awarded an honorable mention by MLA.  The talk poster is attached and information is below. There will be a reception following the talk.

 

In this talk, Genaro Padilla will offer a reading of Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s 1610 colonial epic, "Historia de la Nueva México" as a work that stages the future, that contains a poetics of colonial mendacity—yet also a dissent. He argues that Villagrá’s epic projects a dystopian conception of history recognizable in the current cultural debates of New Mexico, and that it undermines the Juan de Oñate project in its first moment.

Genaro M. Padilla is Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Sciences at University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Perez de Villagra's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, and My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography.

Sponsored by the Departments of American Studies & Anthropology, CHMS, and the ASGSA.
For info, contact: Michael Trujillo <mtruj@unm.edu> or Erin Debenport <erindeb@unm.edu

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