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Cuando el espacio habla. Cuerpos, voces y configuraciones en viaje

Carlos E. Castilla — 2025-07-01

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Ezequiel Pérez — 2025-07-01

El mapa del deseo. La representación del Río de la Plata en el discurso de Diego García de Moguer, hacia 1530

Carlos Alfredo Rossi Elgue — 2025-07-01

Since Juan Díaz de Solís officially discovered the Río de la Plata in 1516, the region was transformed into a space of desire, a land of fabulous riches and earthly paradises like those that Europeans imagined towards the East or those they were beginning to find in America. The expeditions of Sebastián Caboto and Diego García de Moguer, between 1526 and 1529, were fundamental for this spatial configuration to crystallize since, on the one hand, they established fantastic goals towards the northwest, such as the Sierra del Plata, and, on the other, they outlined the possible itineraries to reach them, going up the rivers. In this article we analyze the way in which these representations emerge in the Relacion y derrotero by Diego García de Moguer and other documents that refer to the actions of the captains, such as those of Alonso de Santa Cruz. Although the expeditions failed because they were unable to discover the promised lands and, moreover, had to abruptly abandon the region, García de Moguer's speech continued to reaffirm the potential wealth of the territory and the need to claim what was theirs, even if it were a chimera

Félix de Azara and the journeys of American writing

Virginia P. Forace — 2025-07-01

We are interested in showing in this article not only the discursive construction that Felix de Azara proposes in his writings, but also how they were strategically reappropriated by the European publishing and commercial world with the aim of transforming this engineer into an architect of adventures and worries of a protoscientist isolated in American lands. For this reason, we contemplate the two sides of the European illustrated journey through America: on the one hand, the strategies and resources that Azara deploys throughout his writings in dialogue with a space that does not allow itself to be fully apprehended or demarcated; then, the difficulties and twists and turns that this lawyer had to overcome when publishing his writings, that is, the commercial path that we consider necessary to demonstrate to account for a two-step journey of the majority of European scientists in America.

Juan María Gutiérrez, Ulrico Schmidl and the cruelty of the conquest of America

Valentín Héctor Vergara — 2025-07-01

The present work aims to analyze the discursive strategies employed by Juan María Gutiérrez in his article “Nuestro primer historiador: Ulderico Schmidl. Su obra, su persona y su bibliografía”, published in issue 21 of the Revista del Río de la Plata (1873). In this writing, conducts a study on the chronicle of the German soldier and, based on the selection and interpretation of episodes from the work, develops its formation of stereotypes about the Spanish conquerors and the indigenous peoples of the Río de la Plata and Paraguay. Our objective is to demonstrate that the result of his analysis is not intended to be an impartial presentation of Schmidl's words, but rather part of his discursive strategy to expose the inhumanity of the Spanish invasion and justify indigenous attacks as acts of legitimate defense.

Foundations for a decolonization of the figure of the gaucho: El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes and the place of the gauderio in colonial logic

Juan Ignacio Pisano — 2025-07-01

This article works on a central hypothesis: in the cultural, political and aesthetic uses of the figure of the gaucho, there is a trace of coloniality hidden and, to review this trace, it is essential to attend to the colonial presence of the gaucho in literary production. To support this hypothesis, a lecture of El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes is proposed, the first text that has taken the figure of the gaucho, called gauderio in its pages, to pay attention to how this book highlights this subjectivity as something unique and unique to the region. Starting from there, an analysis of the text by Alonso Carrió de la Vandera is carried out in order to expose the need for a study that adopts a decolonizing perspective to work on the figure of the gaucho. Only in this way can be evident the trace of coloniality that this figure drags to our present.

Towards a Politics of Movement. The Guaranitic War Case

Loreley El Jaber — 2025-07-01

In 1750, the Treaty of Madrid was signed between Spain and Portugal to define a new frontier in South America. This treaty had direct consequences for the Jesuit missionary territory, particularly affecting seven reductions. The forced relocation of the latter’s peoples was a corollary of what had been established between the Iberian monarchies. That relocation engaged the indigenous people in that territory; that´s the way the Guaraní War (1754-1756) began. Based on text produced by the Jesuits and the writings of the Guaraní reduction themselves, this paper analyzes spatial and discursive practices, spatiality’s meanings, and the movements performed within the relevant territory, thereby revealing a type of Guaraní agency in which land, memory, writing and displacement are pooled.

“Camina el autor”: itinerancy, agency and cultural matrix. A reading of Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) by Guaman Poma de Ayala and the Edilberto Jiménez Quispe’s contemporary testimonies

Betina Sandra Campuzano — 2025-07-01

Latin American literary critics have referred to, the intense epigraph “Camina el autor” (“The author walks”) in Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) by Guaman Poma de Ayala, as the source of a text that stablishes the foundations for both, the migrant discourse and the migrant subject who is, at the same time, performative and a translator of Andean imaginaries. Having in mind the Poma de Ayala’s prolific literary production, it is also significative to mention that he was a bilingual indian who was part of the “mitimanes”, and worked for the colonial government. I pretend to study, once more, some ideas outlined in the linguistic and the iconic texts concerned with the agencies, the itinerancies and the Andean cultural matrices.

I am interested in three main issues: firstly, in the face of regulatory intentions that aim to create a homogeneous colonial discourse, I will analyse its heterogeneous aspects by problematizing the agency and the authorship in the Andes during the 17th century. Secondly, I want to make an inventory of figures, images, and metaphors attributed to subjects such as scribes, prosecutors, doctors, muleteers, among others, who travel itinerantly through the Andes. This, allows me to problematize the idea of a foundational discourse, in order to propose the idea of an inaugural discourse of a file on Andean migrants insted. Finally, I am interested in tracing the Andean cultural matrices which underlie in the contemporary chronicles and testimonies of the altarpiece maker Edilberto Jiménez Quispe, who is inscribed in the tradition of Guaman Poma.

Writings in tension: new sieges of the documentary corpus of the Magellanic voyage

María Jesús Benites — 2025-07-01

The 16th-century corpus that recounts the Magellanic voyage gives an account of the vicissitudes of the journey: betrayals, death and shipwrecks enter the writing. The texts redound to violence and the description of the deterioration of bodies and ships. This article is organized in two moments that articulate the act of translating and the task of transcribing: the first brings a reflection on the tensions raised by the translation process in the 19th century of Maximiliano Transilvano´s letter and Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's Decades; the second moment of this work, brings the academic community closer to the proposal of a new transcription of the story of the sailor Ginés de Mafra.

Maria Teresa y Fredrika: imagining Cuba

Carmen Perilli — 2025-07-01

The Women’s travelers in the nineteen century write their adventures using the romantic repertory and use the illustration experience, between subjective impressions and empiric observations. Social explorers say Mary Louise Pratt. They look and listen, confront with new geographies and bodies. There is a direct relation between travelogues and costumer’s fictions. A women’s ethnography center in the social role of women produced for women that construct visual, cognitive and emotive map says Adriana Méndez Ródenas combining three factors: methods, objects of study and circumstance. I am interesting in the contrast the travelogues of two transatlantic women, in the middle nineteen century. They came to the island, where the modern economy transformed the plantation with technology and slavery. The Cuban Mercedes de Santa Cruz y Montalvo and the swedish Fredrika Bremer come from different geographies and bring us costumes portraits and natural view through an intimate writing. Consecrates writers take different position about slavery and write ethnographic fictions that talks about an island where they find the hell ant paradise.

José Antonio Mazzotti (1963-2024). Commitment and critical passion

Beatriz Colombi — 2025-07-01

Tribute to José Antonio Mazzotti and his impact on colonial studies

Kim Beauchesne — 2025-07-01

Laera, Alejandra. (2024). ¿Para qué sirve leer novelas? Narrativas del presente y capitalismo. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 191 pp.

Sandra Gasparini — 2025-07-01

Jáuregui, Carlos y Solodkow David (2024). Bartolomé de Las Casas y el paradigma biopolítico de la modernidad colonial. España: Iberoamericana-Vervuert/ Ediciones Uniandes. 451 pp.

Sofía Huerta Noguera — 2025-07-01

Orduña Carson, Miguel (2024). La fiesta de la República. Cultura política en tiempos de Juárez (Ciudad de México, siglo XIX). Ciudad de México: Grano de Sal. 232 pp.

Lizette Jacinto — 2025-07-01

María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles (2023). Entre el bronce y el olvido. Heroísmo y afrodescendencia en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba. Madrid / Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert (Juego de Dados. Latinoamérica y su Cultura en el XIX). 247 pp.

Pía Paganelli — 2025-07-01

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