Writing as Poaching
Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios
Biographical note
Robert Folger, Ph.D (1999) in History, University of Rostock, and Ph.D. in Spanish literature (2001), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Professor of Spanish at Utrecht University. He has published on a broad range of topics in Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures, with a particular focus on the medieval and early modern period.
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Specialists and students working in early modern Spanish and colonial culture, historiography, and literature. All those interested in the history of colonial Latin America and the relation between state institutions, society and culture in the early modern period.
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