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Author More, Anna Herron

Title Baroque sovereignty : Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole archive of colonial Mexico / Anna More
Edition First edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

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Contents Allegory, archives, and Creole sovereignty -- "Nostra academia in Barbara ..." : building an archive on the imperial frontier -- Mexican hieroglyphics : Creole antiquarianism and the politics of empire -- Counterhistory and Creole governance in the riot of 1692 -- Creole citizenship, race, and the modern world system
Summary This book examines the emergence of a creole archive of artifacts, history, and traditions of colonial Mexico, primarily curated by the polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. The author posits the centrality of this archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism
Analysis Cultural Studies
Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700 -- Political and social views
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700 -- Library
SUBJECT Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700 -- Library
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700 -- Political and social views
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, 1645-1700 fast
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, approximately approximately 1645-1700. gnd
Subject Archives -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Creoles -- Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Civilization, Baroque -- Mexico
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Archives -- Political aspects
Civilization, Baroque
Creoles -- Intellectual life
Intellectual life
Libraries
Political and social views
Kreolen
Geistesleben
Politik
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 -- Sources
Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Subject Mexico
Mexiko
Mexico.
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012024668
ISBN 9780812206555
081220655X