Acquiring a voice: The plebeians speak in early colonial Río de la Plata

• El Jaber, Loreley ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Latin american literature in transition, Pre-1492-1800 / coord. por Rocío Quispe Agnoli, Amber Brian, 2023, ISBN 978-1-108-83883-2, págs. 301-314
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Río de la Plata, the location itself and the journeys towards that destination, hit by failure and discouragement, helped build hostile discourse about the land but also gave rise to a series of scenes about what has not been found before. Therefore, new ways of envisaging this land came to light, as well as the denunciations of Europeans’ excesses. This chapter studies the legal environment where stories of hostility and degradation reveal the forgotten voice of the plebs. The conquest and colonization of the Rio de la Plata then functions not only as the creator of a discourse of deception but also as a scenario that enables the rising of the marginalized voice of seamen, among others.