Anna More is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Introduction: SigÜenza y GÓngora and the Creole Archive1. Allegory, Archives, and Creole Sovereignty2. "Nostra Academia in barbara": Building an Archive on the Imperial Frontier3. Mexican Hieroglyphics: Creole Antiquarianism and the Politics of Empire4. Counterhistory and Creole Governance in the Riot of 16925. Creole Citizenship, Race, and the Modern World SystemConclusion: The Afterlife of a Baroque ArchiveNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"This book will become a landmark in the study of colonial Latin America, not just the literature but the entire culture, including most specially politics. More proves, with theoretical and scholarly authority, that a creole archive emerged in seventeenth-century Mexico, that it incorporated in complex ways the pre-Hispanic past, and that the chief keeper of the archive was Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora." (Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University)

Anna More is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Introduction: SigÜenza y GÓngora and the Creole Archive1. Allegory, Archives, and Creole Sovereignty2. "Nostra Academia in barbara": Building an Archive on the Imperial Frontier3. Mexican Hieroglyphics: Creole Antiquarianism and the Politics of Empire4. Counterhistory and Creole Governance in the Riot of 16925. Creole Citizenship, Race, and the Modern World SystemConclusion: The Afterlife of a Baroque ArchiveNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"This book will become a landmark in the study of colonial Latin America, not just the literature but the entire culture, including most specially politics. More proves, with theoretical and scholarly authority, that a creole archive emerged in seventeenth-century Mexico, that it incorporated in complex ways the pre-Hispanic past, and that the chief keeper of the archive was Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora." (Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University)

Anna More is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Introduction: SigÜenza y GÓngora and the Creole Archive1. Allegory, Archives, and Creole Sovereignty2. "Nostra Academia in barbara": Building an Archive on the Imperial Frontier3. Mexican Hieroglyphics: Creole Antiquarianism and the Politics of Empire4. Counterhistory and Creole Governance in the Riot of 16925. Creole Citizenship, Race, and the Modern World SystemConclusion: The Afterlife of a Baroque ArchiveNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"This book will become a landmark in the study of colonial Latin America, not just the literature but the entire culture, including most specially politics. More proves, with theoretical and scholarly authority, that a creole archive emerged in seventeenth-century Mexico, that it incorporated in complex ways the pre-Hispanic past, and that the chief keeper of the archive was Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora." (Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University)