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The Conquered

- Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity

part of the Extravagantes series

About The Conquered

The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780884024767
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 176
  • Published:
  • December 21, 2020
  • Dimensions:
  • 239x159x17 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 440 g.
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Description of The Conquered

The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.

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