Capítulo de Libro
1536: The Creation of a Literary Space
Título del libro: A History of Argentine Literature
Fecha de publicación:
2024
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
9781009283069
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
This article analyzes the colonial period, an often-overlooked era of Argentine literature, taking 1536, the date of the founding of the city of Buenos Aires, as a starting point. It aims to discuss texts linked to the conquest of the River Plate —namely, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Comentarios (1555), Ulrich Schmidl’s Derrotero y viaje a España y las Indias (1567), and Ruy Díaz de Guzmán’s Argentina (1612), among other letters, chronicles, and documents— using water, a key aspect of the spatiality constructed in these works, as a guiding axis for the analysis. This is not aesthetized water, waiting for a contemplative gaze, but water marked by overflow, excessive, water that stagnates, sickens and stings, overcoming boundaries and impeding the actions of the body attempting to own those lands. In the colonial period, particularly in the texts discussed, a water matrix takes shape which will become the seed of fiction in Argentine literature. The presence of water not as a background or the setting for major events, but as a founding incident of narration, as the main driver of action; a presence which renders spatiality and the bodies traversing it (and enduring it) the keys to the narrative of the River Plate.
Palabras clave:
RIO DE LA PLATA
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COLONIAL
,
ESCRITURA
,
AGUA
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El Jaber, Loreley Rita; 1536: The Creation of a Literary Space; Cambridge University Press; 2024; 11-23
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