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The different historical events, bring about in the finisecular writers a change in his vision of
past. The Independence wars collaborate to emphasize a peculiar heroic sense. The philosophy of
the period and specifically the nihilist decadentism contribute to the melancholy characterization
of the hero, from not is free not even Bolivar. However will detach others characters, the colonial
heroes are the selected models, as its adapt with best success, after the 98’s collapse. The Discovery
hundred place in stage the Colon’s figure. Rubén Darío make to evolve to the Admiral up his
archetypical projection down to his use like a lexical element.
Coded Encounters. Writing, gender, and ethnicity in Colonial Latin America. Eds. Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau, Jeffrey A. Cole, Nina M. Scott y Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. viii + 298 páginas.
Through the examination of some theatre works of the XX century, the representation of
eminent characters is studied, in the ambit of the events which, with the conquest, brought the
independence of the preColombian world to an end. The studied playwriters from Columbus,
Cortés, the Malinche, Moctezuma, Cuautemoc and Atahualpa, with different artistic results,
judge with modern sensibility and each one following his own ideology, the personality of
characters that made or suffered history.
The first Europeans to reach the River Plate (1516) accompanied Juan Díaz de Solís, who
searched for a passage to the East Indies. One century later (1617), during the mandate of the first
creole governor, “the Giant Province of the Indies” was divided in two political units. Between
those two dates, other important ones stand out, such as the foundations of Buenos Aires (1536
and 1580) and Asunción (1537). The latter has been repeatedly compared with “Mohammed’s
Paradise” for its polygamy and sexual excesses. Although it is difficult to imagine a harem without women, these do not have sufficiently
present either in colonial documents or in the literature of the independent stage. Before such a
paradox, we propose to study the situation of the River Plate’s women during the first century
of Spanish presence. In an attempt to synthesize...
This work concentrates on the Christopher Columbus of Los perros del paraíso by Abel
Posse, a novel in which the author, with no pretensions to what is commonly accepted as accuracy,
though without systematically rejecting the legacy of official history, interprets the controversial
figure of the Discoverer from the point of view of poetic licence, i.e., with the authority of a
demiurge.
El descubrimiento de América dio lugar, entre otras cosas, a la proyección de imágenes
deseadas o imágenes del deseo de la cultura europea de los siglos XV y XVI sobre el nuevo
continente; proyección que elaboraba, de modo paralelo a esta empresa de conquista, relatos
utópicos, críticos y reformistas de su propia sociedad. Este pensamiento creció durante la
conquista de América y algunas formulaciones de armonía se pensaron como realizables. De la
empresa utópica de conquista (de conquistadores o de letrados al servicio de la corona
española), de la visión europea de América como espacio utópico en algunos casos o propicio
para la utopía, en otros, resultan determinadas modalidades discursivas de representación o
imágenes que aún perviven en el propio imaginario americano y en el occidental sobre
América.
Es nuestro objetivo resumir un...
Francisco del Puerto, Jerónimo de Aguilar and Gonzalo Guerrero represent problematic and
very interesting cases of Spanish castaways who lived for many years with the Indians and were
then rescued by a following Spanish expedition. Details of their experience and the way they
resumed their lives once they went back to their “civilization” are vague and contradictory. In order to fill the gap between the wreck and the re-encounter, many contemporary Latin
American Writers have written novels and short stories. Following the historic revisionism that
has marked the historiographical studies on the discovery and the conquest (of Latin America)
in the last decades, their way of writing is not innocent but full of political meaning.