Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555)
The incorporation of the American New World to Sixteenth-Century European dominion and knowledge was far from being an unidirectional phenomenon. The Spanish Crown, at the head of the first world-linking process, is a proper analytical frame in order to approach these kinds of links that were as rec...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22702 |
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| Sumario: | The incorporation of the American New World to Sixteenth-Century European dominion and knowledge was far from being an unidirectional phenomenon. The Spanish Crown, at the head of the first world-linking process, is a proper analytical frame in order to approach these kinds of links that were as reciprocal as unequal on both shores of Atlantic. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s experience as Governor of the Río de la Plata province, which he narrates in his book Comentarios (1555), casts light over the complex realities that the project of Spanish colonization had to face in the area, where Spanish invaders and guaraní natives forcibly coexisted. Between the level of the local and global, the lived and the narrated, Álvar Núñez’s book allows to understand the continental imbrication process of the Iberian Monarchy through one of its agent’s perspective. And, with it, the way in which travel narratives portrayed other human experiences, which could transform European cultural expectations. |
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