Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebriation evaluates the discursive and geo-political relevance of representations of drinking and drunkenness in the crucial period for the consolidation of colonial power in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and the resisting rhetoric of a Hispanicized native Andean writer interested in changing stereotypes, fighting inequality, and promoting tolerance at imperial level in one of the main centers of Spanish colonial economic activity in the Americas. In recognizing and addressing this imagery, MA(3)nica Morales restores an element of colonial discourse that hitherto has been overlooked in the critical readings dealing with the history of sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Andes. She presents drinking as the metaphorical site where Western culture and the New World collide and define themselves on the grounds of differing drinking rituals and ideas of moderation and excess. Narratives such as dictionaries, legal documents, conversion manuals, historical writings, literary accounts, and chronicles frame her context of analysis.

About the Author
MA(3)nica P. Morales is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, USA.

Reviews
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2012 'With this book, MA(3)nica P. Morales describes a colonial imaginary of inebriation, citing extensively from Spanish chroniclers, Spanish officials, and Spanish law ... MA(3)nica P. Morales reads widely to provide a rich theological and historical analysis of Andean inebriation that supplements previous studies of moral transgressions...' Renaissance Quarterly 'Morales's book is an important and detailed study of discourses and colonial ideologies in early colonial Peru.' Sixteenth Century Journal



Book Information
ISBN 9781409443339
Author Monica P. Morales
Format Hardback
Page Count 156
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 430g