Wednesday, March 6, 2019

2:30pm, AGSL, UWM Libraries, 3rd floor

Dr. Anna María Escobar, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Colonial documents of the Viceroyalty of Peru include writings where the author presents herself as an Indigenous individual. Historians of the colonial period have long cast doubt on whether these documents were really written by individuals of Indigenous origin, since only the Indigenous elite had access to formal education.”… Continue Reading »