...Jody Blanco Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico . By More Anna . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . 360 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Works Cited Anderson Benedict . Imagined...

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... of the past two decades, allowing us to read them in dialogue and dispute with one another. This alone is a significant achievement. Of equal importance, however, is the sympathetic and nuanced treatment she gives to Sigüenza y Góngora’s expansive intellect, critical hermeneutics, and ambitious...

... to Mexico and Peru, to Mather’s influences and rivals, men like José de Acosta or Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; and reach, too, forward to us, particularly those of us who inherited, maybe, an identity category punctuated by the historical forces that Mather was hoping to harness. The thematic scope...