Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day...
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Author: Zeb Tortorici
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Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain by Tortorici, Zeb

Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

CHF 63.72

Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

CHF 63.72
Author: Zeb Tortorici
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (present-day Mexico, Guatemala, the US Southwest, and the Philippines) to examine the multiple ways bodies and desires come to be textually recorded and archived. Drawing on the records from over three hundred criminal and Inquisition cases between 1530 and 1821, Tortorici shows how the secular and ecclesiastical courts deployed the term contra natura-against nature-to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, masturbation, erotic religious visions, priestly solicitation of sex during confession, and other forms of "unnatural" sex. Archival traces of the visceral reactions of witnesses, the accused, colonial authorities, notaries, translators, and others in these records demonstrate the primacy of affect and its importance to the Spanish documentation and regulation of these sins against nature. In foregrounding the logic that dictated which crimes were recorded and how they are mediated through the colonial archive, Tortorici recasts Iberian Atlantic history through the prism of the unnatural while showing how archives destabilize the bodies, desires, and social categories on which the history of sexuality is based.

Author: Zeb Tortorici
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 06/01/2018
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822371540

About the Author
Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University, coeditor of Centering Animals in Latin American History, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America.

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