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Fugitive Freedom - The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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Fugitive Freedom - The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial
Mexico. 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 found their way through
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 picaros 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 the lives and longings of Aguayo and
Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary picaro? 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 that
was coming apart even as it was coming together.
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