Writing as Poaching : Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios.
Title:
Writing as Poaching : Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios.
Author:
Folger, Robert A.
ISBN:
9789004211421
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Series:
The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; v.44
The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Contents:
Writing as Poaching -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strategic interpellation and tactical writing in colonial historiography (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Relaciones de Méritos y Servicios -- 2.2.1. The Bureaucratic Dispositif: The Allocation of Offices and Privileges -- 2.2.2. The Archive: La Historiografía Indiana and the Monopolization of Historiographical Discourse -- 3. Tactical Appropriations -- 3.1. Dorantes de Carranza: Memoria y Papeles -- 3.2. The Arduous Work of Writing History: Alonso Borregán -- 3.3. Self and Archive: El Carnero de Juan Rodríguez Freyle -- Epilogue: The Hallucinatory World of Bureaucracy -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Reconstructing the workings of colonial Spanish bureaucracy in the production of reports on individuals' achievements, this book explores the interrelation of state-induced curricula vitae and individuals' endeavor to outsmart this system in the genesis of modern forms of literature.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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