The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity
- ISBN-10
- 0884024768
- ISBN-13
- 9780884024767
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-13
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
- Author
- Eleni Kefala
Description
The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.
