Escritura, derecho y esclavitud: Francisco José de Jaca ante el nomos colonial
| dc.contributor.advisor | Merediz, Eyda M. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Moreno-Orama, Rebeca | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Spanish Language and Literature | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-28T06:41:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-28T06:41:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation concentrates on the relationship between law, literature, and slavery in the Hispanic Caribbean of the Early Modern Period. My analysis is based on two letters and a treatise,<italic> Resolución sobre la libertad de los negros y sus originarios, en estado de paganos y después ya cristianos</italic> (1681), that were written by Capuchin friar Francisco José de Jaca, while he was serving as a missionary in the Caribbean region. His writings set the stage for a discussion of how Spanish hegemonic legal thinking is challenged and redefined from an alternative transatlantic narrative. The concept of <italic>nomos colonial</italic> that I introduce in this dissertation denotes the symbolic normative space originated by the legal justifications of the Spanish conquest and colonization. Through the exploration of the <italic>nomos colonial</italic>, my project focuses on how the rhetoric of law served simultaneously as a discursive practice of imperial domination and of cultural resistance. By reclaiming the aesthetic and conceptual originality of Francisco José de Jaca, a neglected author who demonstrated the illegality of Amerindian and African slavery, the dissertation reveals the epistemological shift produced to (re)accommodate the colonial subjects within the <italic>nomos colonial</italic>. By situating Jaca's contributions in a counter-hegemonic legal corpus that dates back to Antón de Montesinos and Bartolomé de Las Casas, the research re-envisions the ideological debates about slavery in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ultimately, my goal is to reconsider some foundational fictions of the Caribbean world--Amerindian legal status, slavery, and Black subjectivity--by underscoring the relevance of an intellectual whose discourse was constructed from the tension between the Spanish legal tradition and the colonial experience. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/14097 | |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Latin American literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Caribbean literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Black studies | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | colonial subject | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Jaca | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | law | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | slavery | en_US |
| dc.title | Escritura, derecho y esclavitud: Francisco José de Jaca ante el nomos colonial | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
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