Mediating colonial marginality and (minor) ity in Isabel de Guevara´s Carta a la Princesa Doña Juana
Written in 1556 by one of the participants in the conquest and colonization of the River Plate, Isabel de Guevara´s letter to the princess Juana is a critical testimony of the time. The value of this document arises from the author´s personal condition, defined as eyewitness of the described facts....
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repository: | Estudos Ibero-Americanos |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/22429 |
| Online Access: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/22429 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Isabel de Guevara female epistolography female conquistador conquest of America minority discourse epistolografía femenina conquistador femenina la conquista de la América el discurso minoritario (ou de las minorías) epistolografia feminina conquistador feminina conquista da América discurso minoritário (ou de minorias) |
| Summary: | Written in 1556 by one of the participants in the conquest and colonization of the River Plate, Isabel de Guevara´s letter to the princess Juana is a critical testimony of the time. The value of this document arises from the author´s personal condition, defined as eyewitness of the described facts. It is in this way that it establishes the verisimilitude of the narration based on juridical speech. This article seeks to interrogate the binary constructions of colonial/imperial, margin/center, and local/global, upon an examination of Isabel de Guevara´s letter in a broader Spanish American colonial context. |
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