The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: A New World Paradise (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature, Series Number 9)

Carlos de SigÜenza y Góngora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico's best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that exemplarize the heterogeneous nature of colonial Spanish American prose. This book is the first critical study to place both the writer and his narrative within the phenomenon of the Barroco de Indias, or the Spanish-American baroque. Approaching SigÜenza as a criollo historian preoccupied with the placement of the New World within a universal context, Professor Ross develops a theoretical framework within which his texts can be read and understood today. Professor Ross incorporates into her examination new critical trends, such as the use of narrative theory, the new historiography, and feminist criticism. Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico's best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that exemplarise the heterogenous nature of colonial Spanish-American prose. This book is the first critical study to place both the writer and his narrative within the phenomenon of the Barroco de Indias, or the Spanish-American baroque. Approaching Siguenza as criollo historian preoccupied with the placement of the New World within a universal context, Professor Ross develops a theoretical framework within which his texts can be read and understood today. Professor Ross incorporates into her examination of the author new critical trends in the study of colonial Spanish American literature, such as the use of narrative theory, the new historiography, and feminist criticism.--Publisher description Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page ix) Introduction (page 1) 1 Culture of the Spanish American baroque (page 17) 2 A New World Paradise (page 40) 3 The discourse of paternity (page 77) 4 The discourse of paternalism (page 105) 5 Reading the vidas (page 151) Epilogue (page 189) Appendix A (page 193) Appendix B (page 195) Notes (page 197) Bibliography (page 205) Index (page 213) Kathleen Ross. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 205-213) And Index.