Fabián R. Vega

Decentering European Written Culture: Indigenous Appropriations of Printing in the Southern Borderlands of the Iberian Empires

This article explores the production of written culture in a remote region of Iberian colonial domains: the Jesuit-Guaraní missions in Paraguay in the eighteenth century. Through an examination of manuscripts, printed books, and chronicles produced in the missions, it seeks to shift the focus of early modern litera...