The Conquest of Space in the <span class='italic'>Relación del Descubrimiento del Rio Marañón</span> by Gerónimo de Ypori (c. 1630)

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Chapter 3 - The Conquest of Space in the Relación del Descubrimiento del Rio Marañón by Gerónimo de Ypori (c. 1630)

from Part I - Land, Space, Territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022

Yamile Silva

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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and

Amber Brian

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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli: Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Amber Brian: Affiliation:
University of Iowa

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This chapter examines Friar Gerónimo de Ypori’s Relacion about the controversial expedition led by Pedro de Ursúa into the Amazon Basin (1560-1561). This expedition led to the rise of the infamous Lope de Aguirre, leader of the Marañones soldiers and explorers. Ypori’s account intended to understand the unknown Amazonian space through description. In doing so, the writer carries out an epistemological exercise to exert sovereignty over a placethat is amorphous in the eyes of his European readers and “uncovers it” for them. Departing from Mary Louise Pratt’s and Edward Said’s discussions about the close connections between writing, cartography, geography, conquest and colonial control, this chapter focuses on the complexity of modes of discourse and ways of writing that were further influenced by the transition of the Spanish legal and bureaucratic writing models into the colonial space of the New World.

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Gerónimo de Ypori Conquest of Space Pedro de Ursúa Río Marañón Lope de Aguirre Antonio León Pinelo Omagua El Dorado Amazonas Topography writing

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800 , pp. 48 - 62

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