Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Dwelling in Transitions
- Part I Land, Space, Territory
- Part II Body
- Part III Belief Systems
- Part IV Literacies
- Chapter 14 Transcultural Intertextuality in Colonial Latin America
- Chapter 15 Becoming a Book: The Reproduction, Falsification, and Digitalization of Colonial Codices
- Chapter 16 From Print to Public Performance to Relaciones de fiestas: Don Quixote in Viceregal Festivals
- Chapter 17 Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text
- Part V Languages
- Part VI Identities
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text
from Part IV - Literacies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022
Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Dwelling in Transitions
- Part I Land, Space, Territory
- Part II Body
- Part III Belief Systems
- Part IV Literacies
- Chapter 14 Transcultural Intertextuality in Colonial Latin America
- Chapter 15 Becoming a Book: The Reproduction, Falsification, and Digitalization of Colonial Codices
- Chapter 16 From Print to Public Performance to Relaciones de fiestas: Don Quixote in Viceregal Festivals
- Chapter 17 Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text
- Part V Languages
- Part VI Identities
- Index
- References
Summary
This essay approaches transitions by tracing the shifting representation of indigenous–authored texts, in both alphabetic and non–alphabetic scripts, in a series of key colonial–era bibliographies, beginning with Antonio de León Pinelo’s Epítome (1629), passing through Andrés González de Barcia’s expanded reedition (1737–38), and culminating in Antonio de Alcedo’s reinvention as a Bibliotheca Americana (1791/1807). By exploring the continuities and disjunctures in inclusion, representation, and classification in this trajectory, we seek to explore how the evolving tradition of the Bibliotheca Americana–a form conceived to accommodate imperially–sanctioned imprints and manuscripts–structured the legibility of indigenous manuscript forms as legitimate modes of knowledge production. It aims to better understand how transitions in bibliographic form enable or foreclose historiographic possibilities, a previously unexplored line of inquiry with implications for our engagement with the legacy of Americanist bibliography in the present.
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