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Exemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts-Pedro Simon's Noticias historiales, Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero, and Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita's Historia general-each of which reveals the colonizer's reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.

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Exemplary Violence offers a rigorous and innovative comparative analysis of three key figures in the literary colonial canon in Colombia: Fray Pedro Simon, Juan Rodriguez Freile, and Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita. Using the concept of baroque allegory, this book wisely explores the tension between culture and barbarism that inspired these authors to transform history in their attempt to overcome, in writing, the early crisis of the Spanish colonial discourse. --Ruben Sanchez-Godoy author of El peor de los remedios: Bartolome de Las Casas y la critica temprana a la esclavitud Africana en el Atlantico Iberico Exemplary Violence makes an important contribution by putting Juan Rodriguez Freile's El carnero--long appreciated for its salacious anecdotes of sin in colonial society--in dialogue with lesser-known works by Pedro Simon and Lucas Fernandez de Piedrahita. In highlighting themes and baroque rhetorical strategies common to these authors, Villate-Isaza offers new insights on their efforts to reinforce European cultural values and ideologies even as they grapple with the evident failures of evangelization and colonial government in New Granada. --Sarah Beckjord author of Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America

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ALBERTO VILLATE-ISAZA is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia, where he specializes in Latin American colonial literature, culture, and historiography, particularly in the New Kingdom of Granada.   

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