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Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico

Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico

Burkhart, Louise M.

Paperback

Series: IMS Monograph

Native American HistoryWriting InstructionAnthropology

ISBN10: 1646424506
ISBN13: 9781646424504
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jun 15 2023
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Staging Christ's Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico explores the Passion plays performed in Nahuatl (Aztec) by Indigenous Mexicans living under Spanish colonial occupation. Though sourced from European writings and devotional practices that emphasized the suffering of Christ and his mother, this Nahuatl theatrical tradition grounded the Passion story in the Indigenous corporate community. Passion plays had courted controversy in Europe since their twelfth-century origin, but in New Spain they faced Catholic authorities who questioned the spiritual and intellectual capacity of Indigenous people and, in the eighteenth century, sought to suppress these performances. Six surviving eighteenth-century scripts, variants of an original play possibly composed early in the seventeenth century, reveal how Nahuas passed along this model text while modifying it with new dialogue, characters, and stage techniques. Louise M. Burkhart explores the way Nahuas merged the Passion story with their language, cultural constructs, social norms, and religious practices while also responding to surveillance by Catholic churchmen. Analytical chapters trace significant themes through the six plays and key these to a composite play in English included in the volume.

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