Research Catalog

Title

Writing as poaching : interpellation and self-fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios / by Robert Folger.

Author

Folger, Robert

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Details

Description

x, 156 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Reconstructing the workings of colonial Spanish bureaucracy in the production of reports on individuals' achievements, this book explores the interrelation of state-induced curricula vitae and individuals' endeavor to outsmart this system in the genesis of modern forms of literature.

Series Statement

Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 44

Uniform Title

Medieval and early modern Iberian world v. 44.

Subject

• Patronage, Political > Spain > History
• Autobiography > Political aspects > History. > Spain
• Biography as a literary form
• Spansk litteratur > historia > 1500-talet > 1600-talet
• Självbiografier > politiska aspekter > historia > Spanien > 1500-talet > 1600-talet
• Autobiography > Political aspects > History. > Spain
• History
• Political science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
• Biographies as Topic
• Spain > Colonies > Administration. > America
• Spanien > kolonier > historia > Amerika (kontinent) > 1500-talet > 1600-talet

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Includes English and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Writing as Poaching; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Strategic interpellation and tactical writing in colonial historiography (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries); 3. Tactical Appropriations; Epilogue: The Hallucinatory World of Bureaucracy; Works Cited; Index.

ISBN

• 9789004211094 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004211098 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011029426

OCLC

• 741549405
• SCSB-11532381

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library