In 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez, penned by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be slipping irrevocably into decadence. At the same time, history marked the epochal hearkening of the leading Puerto Rican character-narrator whose name appears on the title, and of the well-known Mexican writer, mathematician, philosopher, and historian. Both were exemplary subjects of a new hybrid race and creole culture straddling the effects that the conquest and colonization of the New World left across the American continent. To date,...
In 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez, penned by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be s...
In 2009, 319 years after its publication, Jose F. Buscaglia was the first to furnish irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of Alonso Ramirez who was shipwrecked in 1689. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative study on a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
In 2009, 319 years after its publication, Jose F. Buscaglia was the first to furnish irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Mis...
In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, Jose F. Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes is based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramirez.
In 2009, 319 years after its publication, and following over a century of copious scholarly speculation about the work, Jose F. Buscaglia is the first...
