The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary CultureWinner, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2010 The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culturecities, festivals, and wonderfrom the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats a multitude of imperialist and anti imperialist texts in depth, including poetry,