Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | America: The Tale of a Continent
Chapter | El abordaje de la conquista del Río de la Plata en la obra de Ruy Díaz de Guzmán

El abordaje de la conquista del Río de la Plata en la obra de Ruy Díaz de Guzmán

Abstract

Ruy Díaz de Guzmán marked a milestone in the colonial history of the Río de la Plata, being the first in this region of America to narrate with historical and evocative sense the events that occurred in the so-called Giant Province of the Indies. In the work Annals of Discovery, Population and Conquest of the Río de la Plata, one can observe the idealisation of the conqueror archetype, permanently extolling the ‘heroic’ work of the Spanish in the process of conquest, as opposed to the indigenous, always presented as unruly and treacherous. The article seeks to address the way in which Ruy Díaz de Guzmán presents the conquest of the Río de la Plata through the analysis of the discourse exhibited in the aforementioned work.


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Submitted: Feb. 6, 2019 | Accepted: March 8, 2019 | Published May 14, 2019 | Language: es

Keywords Indigenous • Conquest • Conqueror • Mestizo • History

Copyright © 2019 Pedro Ramón Caballero Cáceres. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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