The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture

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The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture

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Stephanie Merrim

Creator

• Merrim, Stephanie

Subject

• Festivals -- Mexico | Mexico City -- History -- 17th century
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- In literature
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
• Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
• Festivals -- Mexico | Mexico City -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture<U+0127> �cities, festivals, and wonder<U+0127> �from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats a multitude of imperialist and anti-imperialist texts in depth, including poetry, drama, protofiction, historiography, and journalism. While several of the landmark authors studied, including Hernán Cortés and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, are familiar, others have received remarkably little critical attention. Similarly, in spotlighting creole writers, Merrim reveals an intertextual tradition in Mexico that spans two centuries. Because the spectacular city reaches its peak in the seventeenth century, Merrim's book also theorizes and details the spirited work of the New World Baroque. The result is the rich examination of a trajectory that leads from the Renaissance ordered city to the energetic revolts of the spectacular city and the New World Baroque.--

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• Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

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DLC

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture