The Resource Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico, William B. Taylor
Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico, William B. Taylor
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- Summary
- "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 are often lost from 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 pícaros 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 those aspects of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble one or another literary pícaro? 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 coming apart as it was coming together"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 207 pages
- Contents
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- Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, escape artist
- Juan Atondo's vagrant heart
- Protean pícaros
- Aguayo and Atondo, pícaros after all?
- Isbn
- 9780520368569
- Label
- Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico
- Title
- Fugitive freedom
- Title remainder
- the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico
- Statement of responsibility
- William B. Taylor
- Subject
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- Atondo, Juan, 1783?-
- Catholic Church
- Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church and state
- Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church history
- History
- 1700-1799
- Impostors and imposture -- Mexico -- 18th century
- Impostors and imposture -- Mexico -- 18th century
- Mexico
- Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century
- Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century
- Impostors and imposture
- Aguayo y Herrera, Joseph Lucas, 1747-
- Aguayo y Herrera, Joseph Lucas, 1747-
- Atondo, Juan, 1783?-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 are often lost from 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 pícaros 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 those aspects of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble one or another literary pícaro? 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 coming apart as it was coming together"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- CU-S/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Taylor, William B.,
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Aguayo y Herrera, Joseph Lucas
- Atondo, Juan
- Catholic Church
- Impostors and imposture
- Church and state
- Mexico
- Catholic Church
- Church and state
- Impostors and imposture
- Mexico
- Label
- Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico, William B. Taylor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, escape artist -- Juan Atondo's vagrant heart -- Protean pícaros -- Aguayo and Atondo, pícaros after all?
- Control code
- 1163935314
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520368569
- Lccn
- 2020025987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1163935314
- Label
- Fugitive freedom : the improbable lives of two imposters in late colonial Mexico, William B. Taylor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Joseph Lucas Aguayo y Herrera, escape artist -- Juan Atondo's vagrant heart -- Protean pícaros -- Aguayo and Atondo, pícaros after all?
- Control code
- 1163935314
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 207 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520368569
- Lccn
- 2020025987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1163935314
Subject
- Atondo, Juan, 1783?-
- Catholic Church
- Catholic Church -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church and state
- Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church and state -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century
- Church history
- History
- 1700-1799
- Impostors and imposture -- Mexico -- 18th century
- Impostors and imposture -- Mexico -- 18th century
- Mexico
- Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century
- Mexico -- Church history -- 18th century
- Impostors and imposture
- Aguayo y Herrera, Joseph Lucas, 1747-
- Aguayo y Herrera, Joseph Lucas, 1747-
- Atondo, Juan, 1783?-
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