Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico
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Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico
University of California Press, c2021
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Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of 2 imposters in late colonial Mexico
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico
Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule.
Displacement brought picaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture-a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary picaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together.
目次
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
Strangers in the Land: Prosperity, Poverty, Expansion, and Displacement in Spain and New Spain
A World of Appearances and Suspicion
Two Impostors
The Mexican Inquisition after 1750
1 Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, Escape Artist
A Life on His Own and on the Move: "I left determined to make my way in life . . . for good or ill"
Aguayo Presents Himself: Reading His Actions and Words: ". . . leaving nothing behind but my shadow"
Inquisitors Take the Measure of Joseph Aguayo: "An escaped criminal and backslider"
Conclusion: "What I tell you is either truth or lies"
2 Juan Atondo's Vagrant Heart
Aspirations and Transgressions
Atondo Presents Himself to the Inquisition
The Inquisitors and Others Appraise Juan Atondo
Conclusion: His Propension Religiosa
3 Protean Picaros
Early Literary Picaros: "A vagabond is a newcomer in a heap of trouble"
Mexican Literary Picaros?
Conclusion
4 Aguayo and Atondo, Picaros After All?
Aguayo: "The picaro both incorporates and transcends the wanderer, the jester, and the have-not."
Atondo: "You are the stranger who gets stranger by the hour"
Conclusion
Conclusion
Beyond Picaros
Fugitive Freedom
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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