Inventories of Ruin

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Inventories of Ruin

The Demise of the Mexican Jesuits, in Three Acts

Molina, J. Michelle

Fordham University Press

03/2026

304

Dura

Inglês

9781531512286

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Disappearing Acts 1

Act I. Arrest 24
Scene I. Notarial Observation at the Colegio Espiritu Santo 31
Scene II. The Action of Subtraction 37
Scene III. Departures and Returns, Replications and Excisions 45
Scene IV. Aramburu's Desk 50
Scene V. Madre Santisima de la Luz, Owner of the Means of Her Own Reproduction 53
Scene VI. Counting the Silver 62
Scene VII. Care for the Sacramental Silver on the Jesuit Hacienda 75
Scene VIII. Charting Virtue, Enforcing Devotionalism 79
Scene IX. Silver, Salvation, and Racialization 88

Act II. Possibility? 98
Scene I. The First Book 101
Scene II. Shipboard Disputation 103
Scene III. Off the Page, or, Things Thjuelen Is Too Self-Absorbed to See 107
Scene IV. Missing Books 114
Scene V. The Virgin Mary Conquers Lutheran Heresy 119
Scene VI. Chasing Spiritual Union across the Mediterranean 123
Scene VII. Betrayal 126

Act III. Ruination 134
Scene I. The Transatlantic Culling of the Mexican Province 139
Scene II. "True" Monuments: The Ruination of el Verdadero Jesuita 149
Scene III. Off the Page: Bologna 161
Scene IV. Displaced, or the Jesuit "College" in a New World 163
Scene V. The Hacienda, Another Model 166
Scene VI. "La America" and Nostalgia for Tepotzotlan 170
Scene VII. To Live Dying: Mourning in an Etiological Mode 172
Scene VIII. Necrocommunity, or a Mournful Mode of Sociability 179
Scene IX. Verdadero Anchorites 182

Concluded: The Mexican Province 189

Acknowledgments 197
Notes 203
Bibliography 243
Index 259
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Affect theory; Colonialism; Inventories Expulsion; Jesuits; Material religion; Memorialization; Mexico; Missionaries; Performance studies