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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Autor principal: Gandini, María Juliana
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Publicado: Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti 2012
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spelling I10-R307-article-227022021-06-01T21:54:40Z Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555) Experiencias desde los márgenes. Armas, letras y alteridad en los Comentarios de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555) Gandini, María Juliana Cabeza de Vaca iberian monarchy Río de la Plata travel narratives Cabeza de Vaca monarquía ibérica relatos de viajes Río de la Plata 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. La integración del Nuevo Mundo americano al dominio y conocimiento europeo del siglo XVI estuvo lejos de ser un fenómeno unidireccional. La corona española, vanguardia de la primera mundialización, constituye un marco de análisis adecuado para abordar estas relaciones tan recíprocas como desiguales en ambas orillas atlánticas. La experiencia de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca como gobernador de la Provincia del Río de la Plata, que vuelca en su obra Comentarios (1555), ilumina las complejas realidades que el proyecto de colonización española afrontó en el área, donde invasores españoles y nativos guaraníes conviven forzadamente. Entre los niveles de lo local y lo global y de lo vivido y lo narrado, la obra de Álvar Núñez permite entender el proceso de imbricación continental de la monarquía ibérica desde la perspectiva de uno de sus agentes. Y con ello, la forma en que los relatos de viaje portaban experiencias humanas otras que podían transformar las expectativas culturales europeas. Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti 2012-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22702 10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n12.22702 Anuario del Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti; Núm. 12 (2012); 81-96 2683-9164 1666-6836 10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n12 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/22702/22321 Derechos de autor 2012 María Juliana Gandini
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iberian monarchy
Río de la Plata
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Cabeza de Vaca
monarquía ibérica
relatos de viajes
Río de la Plata
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iberian monarchy
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travel narratives
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relatos de viajes
Río de la Plata
Gandini, María Juliana
Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555)
topic_facet Cabeza de Vaca
iberian monarchy
Río de la Plata
travel narratives
Cabeza de Vaca
monarquía ibérica
relatos de viajes
Río de la Plata
author Gandini, María Juliana
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title Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555)
title_short Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555)
title_full Experiences from the margins. Weapons, letters and otherness in the Comentarios of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1555)
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title_sort experiences from the margins. weapons, letters and otherness in the comentarios of álvar núñez cabeza de vaca (1555)
description 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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