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Peripheral Baroque negotiations of identity.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Ilika, Aaron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance-language literature.
- 0313.
- Penn dissertations--Romance languages.
- Romance languages--Penn dissertations.
- Local Subjects:
- Penn dissertations--Romance languages.
- Romance languages--Penn dissertations.
- 0313.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 70-06A.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This dissertation explores the Baroque articulations of literary and national identity in two peripheries of the Spanish empire: the viceroyalties of Catalonia and New Spain (present day Mexico). I study several Catalan authors who wrote in Catalan, a romance language spoken in eastern Spain, in light of recent scholarship on authors of the Spanish American Baroque, which stresses the subversive ways in which colonized intellectuals appropriated hegemonic discourse. The authors I study elaborate a critique of Spanish colonial power relations in order to stimulate local identities: in the case of New Spain, this resulted in a Creole (the term mainly used for a European born in the Americas) identity that mimics yet simultaneously subverts hegemonic imperial discourse, while in the Catalan case, I explore a highly politicized literary production that would revitalize Catalan as a literary language equal to the language of empire, Spanish. These authors are studied in relation to their use of emblems, a genre common to the Renaissance and Baroque that combined word and image. My comparative analysis of these authors identifies important commonalities in these colonial intellectuals and their appropriation of the imperial, Baroque esthetic.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Ph.D. in Romance Languages) -- University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2056.
- Adviser: Barbara Fuchs.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- ISBN:
- 9781109228212
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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