"1492:  What Is It Like to Be Discovered?"
 
by Deborah Small with Maggie Jaffe
 
in Monthly Review Press (Spring/Summer 1992, p. 13)
 
     This powerful and provocative book weaves together a
narrative history of Columbus's invasion of the New World with
poetry, quotations, and illustrations to unmask conventional
versions of the Columbus myth.  The artwork, in stark black and
white, is adapted from sixteenth-century engravings and woodcuts,
as well as contemporary advertising images, Hollywood films, and
children's books.
     Deborah Small, a writer and artist, and Maggie Jaffe, a
poet, dissect the language and images used to dehumanize the
indigenous inhabitants of the Americas in order to justify their
subjugation and ultimately their extermination.  A stunning and
dramatic revisionist view of Columbus's exploits, 1492 exposes
racial, economic, and sexual exploits of the conquest.
     Deborah Small has produced three separate exhibits based on
the colonization of the Americas--"1492," "New World [Women],"
and "Empire, Elan, Ecstasy"--which have appeared in museums and
galleries across the country.  In addition, her work is part of a
travelling exhibition entitled "Counter Colonialismo," which will
appear throughout the United States in 1992.
 
$15.00 PB8367 / 160 pp.
 
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Copyrite 1991 by Deborah Small with Maggie Jaffe.  Reprinted by
permission of Monthly Review Foundation.  Page 13 from the
Monthly review Spring/Summer catalog