Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca Mexicana and the Rusticatio Mexicana

Authors

Antony Higgins

Files

Series

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Page Count

304

Language

English

Description

This book constitutes an attempt to theorize the process of the emergence, in eighteenth-century New Spain, of a position of intellectual subjectivity differentiated from that established by the regime of Spanish imperial authority. The principal concern has been to trace how certain groups of Criollo intellectuals try to construct such discourses, paradoxically, out of the framework of available European systems of knowledge and representation. In this fashion, it was sought to discern the outline of an ideological program for Criollo political and cultural hegemony in the eighteenth-century.

ISBN

9781612491080

Publication Date

Fall 10-1-2000

Publisher

Purdue University Press

City

West Lafayette, IN

Keywords

Eguiara y Eguren, Juan Jose? de, Landi?var, Rafael, Creoles--Mexico--Politics and government--18th century, Creoles--Mexico--Intellectual life--18th century, Subjectivity, Mexico --History --Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

Recommended Citation

Higgins, Antony, "Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca Mexicana and the Rusticatio Mexicana" (2000). Purdue University Press Books. 8.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/8