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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457195903321

Autore

Folger Robert

Titolo

Writing as poaching [[electronic resource] ] : interpellation and self-fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios / / by Robert Folger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28081-7

9786613280817

90-04-21142-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

The medieval and early modern Iberian world, , 1569-1934 ; ; v. 44

Disciplina

324.2/04

Soggetti

Patronage, Political - Spain - History

Autobiography - Political aspects - Spain - History

Biography as a literary form

Electronic books.

Spain Colonies America Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Robert Folger -- Introduction / Robert Folger -- Strategic Interpellation and Tactical Writing in Colonial Historiography (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) / Robert Folger -- Tactical Appropriations / Robert Folger -- Epilogue: The Hallucinatory World of Bureaucracy / Robert Folger -- Works Cited / Robert Folger -- Index / Robert Folger.

Sommario/riassunto

Colonial Spanish bureaucracy produced masses of “autobiographical” texts ('relaciones de méritos and servicios') which forced/invited individuals to present themselves as perfect subjects of the King in order to be rewarded. Bureaucracy produced the officials of the colonial regime, and, at the same time, it provided individuals with the possibility of exploring the literary potential of writing one’s curriculum vitae. This book helps contextualize a body of often-used yet understudied historic sources; it indicates that the fabric of early modern society was held together by a pervasive economy of 'mercedes' (rewards); and it shows that the tension between state-



induced production of autobiographical documents and the individual’s endeavor to outsmart this system is at the origin of modern forms of literature.