De sirenas, gigantes y apariciones: maravilla y monstruosidad en Argentina y Conquista del Río de la Plata(1602), de Martín del Barco Centenera
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2014-03
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria.
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El Río de la Plata ha sido, desde su descubrimiento, un espacio peculiar. Los conquistadores recién llegados no encontraron allí lo que caracterizó al resto del territorio americano. Unos y otros hallaron escasez, en lugar de abundancia; belicosidad, en lugar de conquista inmediata; pobreza, en lugar de oro y plata. Todos ellos perpetuaron mitos que nunca se convirtieron en realidades. Los autores de estas crónicas se embarcan en una empresa escrituraria que los sumerge en un desafío: ser fieles a lo visto y experimentado y, a la vez, representar lo atípico del espacio. Este artículo abordará La Argentina(1602) de Martín Del Barco Centenera, un texto poco trabajado desde la crítica literaria, como primer acercamiento al análisis de lo maravilloso y lo monstruoso, problemáticas que pueden pensarse como el reflejo de la complejidad territorial rioplatense y del peculiar y paulatino proceso de su conquista.
The Río de la Plata region has been, since it was discovered, a peculiar place. The conquerors did not find what later on characterized the rest of the American territory. Instead of abundance, they found scarcity; instead of immediate conquest, they found bellicosity; instead of gold and silver, they found poverty. They all perpetuated myths that never became true. The authors of these chronicles set out on a challenging writing enterprise: to be true to what they had seen and experienced and, at the same time, torepresent the singularity of the space. This article is about Martín Del Barco Centenera's La Argentina(1602), a text that has been scarcely analyzed by literary criticism. The focus is the analysis of the wonderful and the monstrous, themes that seem tobe related to the territorial complexity of the Río de la Plata area and to the peculiar and slow process of its conquest.
The Río de la Plata region has been, since it was discovered, a peculiar place. The conquerors did not find what later on characterized the rest of the American territory. Instead of abundance, they found scarcity; instead of immediate conquest, they found bellicosity; instead of gold and silver, they found poverty. They all perpetuated myths that never became true. The authors of these chronicles set out on a challenging writing enterprise: to be true to what they had seen and experienced and, at the same time, torepresent the singularity of the space. This article is about Martín Del Barco Centenera's La Argentina(1602), a text that has been scarcely analyzed by literary criticism. The focus is the analysis of the wonderful and the monstrous, themes that seem tobe related to the territorial complexity of the Río de la Plata area and to the peculiar and slow process of its conquest.
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Centenera, Conquista, Río de la Plata, Maravilla, Monstruosidad, Conquest, Wonder