Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Dwelling in Transitions
- Part I Land, Space, Territory
- Part II Body
- Part III Belief Systems
- Part IV Literacies
- Part V Languages
- Part VI Identities
- Chapter 22 Textual Figures and Modalities of Change: The Soldier, the Translator, the Plebeian, and the Woman Chronicler
- Chapter 23 Diego Muñoz Camargo and the Destabilization of the Relación Geográfica: Adaptation and Variation in the Mestizo Chronicle
- Chapter 24 Representing/Erasing the Other in Colonial Brazil’s Eighteenth-Century Epic Poetry
- Index
- References
Chapter 22 - Textual Figures and Modalities of Change: The Soldier, the Translator, the Plebeian, and the Woman Chronicler
from Part VI - Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022
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Book contents
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Latin American Literature in Transition
- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Dwelling in Transitions
- Part I Land, Space, Territory
- Part II Body
- Part III Belief Systems
- Part IV Literacies
- Part V Languages
- Part VI Identities
- Chapter 22 Textual Figures and Modalities of Change: The Soldier, the Translator, the Plebeian, and the Woman Chronicler
- Chapter 23 Diego Muñoz Camargo and the Destabilization of the Relación Geográfica: Adaptation and Variation in the Mestizo Chronicle
- Chapter 24 Representing/Erasing the Other in Colonial Brazil’s Eighteenth-Century Epic Poetry
- Index
- References
Summary
Transition, understood as transformation and displacement, defines early Latin American textualities, where forms of rhetoric, genres, loci of enunciation are crossed within the cultural quagmire of conquest and the colonial order. This process leads to the difficult coexistence of the archaic and the new, tradition and rupture that become evident in the emergence of a new configuration of identities that shed light on “entrelugares” (in-between spaces), which become the foundation of the Latin American literary tradition. This essay proposes four textual figures that delimit new identities: the soldier-conqueror, the translator-migrant, the plebeian, and the woman chronicler. These figures are studied in a range of sixteenth-century texts including chronicles, histories, letters, and reports from New Spain, Peru, and Río de la Plata.
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- Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800 , pp. 333 - 347Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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