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Caribbean and Latin America

Jonathan Earl Carlyon. Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library. (Studies in Book and Print Culture.) Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. 253. $55.00.

This book assesses Andrés González de Barcia's contribution to Americanist scholarship, examining his bibliographical, editorial, and historiographical production. Barcia is well known among scholars of colonial Latin America for his role as the eighteenth-century editor of sources on American history that later became incorporated into the literary canon. Distancing himself from studies of the Latin American archive by Roberto González Echevarría and Anthony Higgins, Jonathan Earl Carlyon discusses Barcia's scholarship from the perspective of his mise en livre (things such as his editorial choices, printed page composition, and publishing practices), his creation of a biblioteca (a physical space, a collection, but more importantly a "forum where knowledge circulates" [pp. 12, 126–154]), and his production of an editorial paratext (the writing surrounding a text) as a privileged venue of scholarly output. Using approaches developed in the field of textual criticism (including issues of bibliography, editing, and book history), Carlyon seeks to establish Barcia's influence "in shaping the way we study colonial Latin America today" (p. 7).

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