History of Colonial Latin America

Your paper on Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Tranvestite in the New World is due on Monday March 5.  If you are not going to do the paper, please drop me a line. If you are going to the paper but you need another day, again, please send me an email asking for the extension, so I know that your paper is on its way. The question is “What does this primary source tell us about colonial Latin America?” As with all our papers, it should be submitted via Mavspace, with the grading grid from your last assignment copied and pasted into the top of the new essay.

The essay should be about 5pages [1,500 words] long, though if you have more to say, take more space! It should have all the elements I’ve been stressing throughout the semester — thesis in the first paragraph, good title that reflects the thesis, evidence that supports the thesis, etc. It should also  answer the question “how does this change our conception of colonial Latin America.”

The main assigned question, however, is the same one we have been asking ourselves about primary documents all semester long: “What does this tell us about colonial Latin America?” You may want to write about “patriarchy,” hegemony and the role of women (see the Chasteen book if you’re not sure what I mean here) , you may want to write about violence, about the Church, about honor, or about the role of indigenous people in the story.