Writing as poaching [[electronic resource] ] : interpellation and self-fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios / / by Robert Folger
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Folger Robert
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| Titolo: |
Writing as poaching [[electronic resource] ] : interpellation and self-fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios / / by Robert Folger
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (166 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 324.2/04 |
| Soggetto topico: | Patronage, Political - Spain - History |
| Autobiography - Political aspects - Spain - History | |
| Biography as a literary form | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Spain Colonies America Administration |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Writing as poaching |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28081-7 |
| 9786613280817 | |
| 90-04-21142-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812817303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; ; v. 44.