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Fugitive Freedom
2021
Overview
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 pícaros 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 pícaro? 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.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
ISBN
0520368568, 9780520368569
