Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text

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Chapter 17 - Colonial Latin American Bibliography and the Indigenous Text

from Part IV - Literacies

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022

Clayton McCarl and

Lindsay Van Tine

Edited by

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and

Amber Brian

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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli: Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Amber Brian: Affiliation:
University of Iowa

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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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Colonial bibliographies circulation of knowledge bibliographers indigenous texts Bibliotheca americana Antonio León Pinelo Bernardino de Sahagún Antonio de Alcedo New Spain

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800 , pp. 258 - 272

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