LEADER 04607nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910966317803321 005 20250513230438.0 010 $a9781283898843 010 $a1283898845 010 $a9780812206555 010 $a081220655X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206555 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065384 035 $a(OCoLC)824081572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786935 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438776 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786935 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10803505 035 $a(PQKB)10545275 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17535 035 $a(DE-B1597)449645 035 $a(OCoLC)979628139 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421134 035 $a(Perlego)732383 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441864 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065384 100 $a20120615d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBaroque sovereignty $eCarlos de Sigüenza y Go?ngora and the Creole archive of colonial Mexico /$fAnna More 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780812244694 311 08$a0812244699 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive --$tChapter 1. Allegory, Archives, and Creole Sovereignty --$tChapter 2. "Nostra Academia in Barbara . . . " --$tChapter 3. Mexican Hieroglyphics --$tChapter 4. Counterhistory and Creole Governance in the Riot of 1692 --$tChapter 5. Creole Citizenship, Race, and the Modern World System --$tConclusion: The Afterlife of a Baroque Archive --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the seventeenth century, even as the Spanish Habsburg monarchy entered its irreversible decline, the capital of its most important overseas territory was flourishing. Nexus of both Atlantic and Pacific trade routes and home to an ethnically diverse population, Mexico City produced a distinctive Baroque culture that combined local and European influences. In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants-or creoles, as they called themselves-began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Mathematician, antiquarian, poet, and secular priest, Sigüenza authored works on such topics as the 1680 comet, the defense of New Spain, pre-Columbian history, and the massive 1692 Mexico City riot. He wrote all of these, in his words, "out of love for my patria. "Through readings of Sigüenza y Góngora's diverse works, 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. In an analysis that contributes substantially to early modern colonial studies and theories of memory and knowledge, More posits the centrality of the creole archive for understanding how a local political imaginary emerged from the ruins of Spanish imperialism. 606 $aArchives$xPolitical aspects$zMexico$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aCreoles$zMexico$xIntellectual life$y17th century 606 $aCivilization, Baroque$zMexico 607 $aMexico$xHistory$ySpanish colony, 1540-1810$vSources 607 $aMexico$xIntellectual life$y17th century 615 0$aArchives$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCreoles$xIntellectual life 615 0$aCivilization, Baroque 676 $a972/.02092 700 $aMore$b Anna Herron$01817991 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966317803321 996 $aBaroque sovereignty$94376880 997 $aUNINA