The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture / / Stephanie Merrim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Merrim, Stephanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 p.)

The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Road Map -- One Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old -- Two Order and Concert -- Three Balbuena’s “La grandeza mexicana” and the Advent of the Spectacular City -- Four Balbuena’s Spectacular City and the Creole Cause -- Five Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico -- Six “To Know the All”: The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico -- Seven Babel: Wild Work of the Baroque -- Appendix Chronology of Principal Works -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX