| FT-51660-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Michael Schuessler | Towards a Literature of Foundations: Mural Painting and Missionary Theatre in New Spain | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Michael | | Schuessler | | | | Barnard College | New York | NY | 10027-6909 | USA | 2003 | Latin American Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project examines factors that shaped artistic and literary expression in colonial Mexico. My book, tentatively entitled A Literature of Foundations: Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, is a study of the complex relationships between verbal texts and visual contexts that emerged during the first century after the Spanish Conquest. In this period, the relationship between literacy and legibility--indeed their very definition--take on fundamental cultural significance, and the collision of the ideographical tradition of the Nahuas with the alphabetical system of the Europeans led to a fascinating array of entirely new modes of expression. |