Gretchen D. Starr-Lebeau
Autor(a) de American Eras: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600
Obras por Gretchen D. Starr-Lebeau
American Eras: Development of the Industrial United States 1878-1899 (American Eras) (1997) 13 exemplares
In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and "Conversos" in Guadalupe, Spain (2003) 8 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Membros
- 58
- Popularidade
- #284,346
- Avaliação
- 5.0
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
Through careful use of documentary evidence, Starr-LeBeau shows that a person's sense of self is never simple, and that even those people who claim (or who have imposed on them) the same identity may conceive of that identity differently, or engage in a very different set of actions and practices. Some of the trial evidence makes for gripping reading in and of themselves, as with the case of Inés Gonsalez whose bitter testimony and insistence that her conversa mother was a 'true Jew' succeeded in condemning her own mother to death.
Moreover, Starr-LeBeau demonstrates that institutions such as the Inquisition and the Spanish crown have a vested interested in "creating oppositions out of ambiguities"—in reifying those fluid, multifaceted identities into discrete categories—as a means of bolstering their own power. Starr-LeBeau's arguments are persuasive and well-written, even if at times (as she acknowledges) based on scant documentation.… (mais)