Baroque sovereignty
Subtitle: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole archive of colonial Mexico
By: Anna More
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780812244694
Subjects: Baroque Civilization; Intellectual life; Library; Political and social views; Sources; Archives; Creoles; History
Description: "...Baroque Sovereignty locates the colonial Baroque at the crossroads of a conflicted Spanish imperial rule and the political imaginary of an emergent local elite. Arguing that Spanish imperialism was founded on an ideal of Christian conversion no longer applicable at the end of the seventeenth century, More discovers in Sigüenza y Góngora's works an alternative basis for local governance. The creole archive, understood as both the collection of local artifacts and their interpretation, solved the intractable problem of Spanish imperial sovereignty by establishing a material genealogy and authority for New Spain's creole elite." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.