Balbuena's Grandeza mexicana and the American Georgic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12413282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodrigo Cacho Casal (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-214 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Colonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10609164.2015.1040277 |
| OpenAlex | W1555997630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Bernardo de Balbuena’s Grandeza mexicana (1604) stands between two worlds. One of the earliest and most spectacular poetic celebrations of the wonders of the city of Mexico, this text was addressed both at the American and the Spanish audience, producing a duplicitous message. The capital of New Spain is presented as one of the most loyal and productive colonies of the Hispanic empire, though it is also celebrated for its economic autonomy and cultural supremacy with regards to the metropolis. These dualisms are also noticeable in the poetic style of Balbuena’s work, which, following the traditional idea of the Wheel of Virgil, adopts old classical models to portray the New World whilst anticipating Baroque poetics. Following the example of Virgil, Balbuena fashioned his literary career as a process organised in three distinct evolutionary stages, beginning with a bucolic text, Siglo de Oro en las selvas de Erífile, and culminating with an epic poem, El Bernardo. Grandeza stood between these two, adapting the rural setting of the Georgics to an urban context, and offering an idealised account of the Virgilian praise of human industry, which placed Balbuena and the other members of the lettered class on the forefront of Mexican society
Art · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · EPIC · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Praise · Style (visual arts · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Latin American history and culture · Law
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Notas sobre el tópico de laudes (alabanzas de lugares)
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Renaissance self-fashioning
Las obras menores de Balbuena
Historia natural y moral de las indias
Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse
Reconsidering Colonial Discourse for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish America
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |