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- 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 16 - From Print to Public Performance to Relaciones de fiestas: Don Quixote in Viceregal Festivals
from Part IV - Literacies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022
- 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 chapter examines two Latin American festivals accounts, in which prominent Cervantine figures make their first American appearances. It contends that these accounts are paradigmatic examples of transition in colonial texts in at least two ways. First, they are examples of “theoretical transition” between marginal and canonical that produce new texts defined by their generic hybridity. Second, they offer thematic transitions, as the prominent Cervantine figures travel from Spain to the Americas as characters of a print book, they were then enacted in public performances in New Spain and Peru to be recorded in written accounts. In these texts, the prominent Cervantine figures meet Spanish American characters and places in viceregal festivals.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800 , pp. 243 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022