%0 Journal Article
%T EXPERIENCIAS DE CORDILLERA, ECOS DE FR¨ªO: RELATOS CRUZADOS ENTRE CHILE Y QUITO EN EL SIGLO XVI
%A Vega
%A Alejandra
%J Revista chilena de literatura
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-22952011000300012
%X in the hispanic narrative of the conquest of peru, we can identify two different yet related episodes: pedro de alvarado's journey to quito in 1534 and the expedition to chile commanded by diego de almagro in 1535-1536. this article discusses the echoes than can be pinpointed in the accounts of both experiences in a corpus of texts written or printed around 1550 (gonzalo fern¨¢ndez de oviedo, francisco l¨®pez de g¨®mara, pedro cieza de le¨®n and agust¨ªn de z¨¢rate). by tracing unexpected similarities and differences, this proposal discusses the importance of oral circulation of histories amongst peruvian conquistadors. the features of conversation, as a social practice, allowed the register ofan early christian conceptualization of the tawantinsuyu territory. here quito and chile became frontier marks of the conquered space, thus enabling a superposition of these places as they were characterized by a shared set of mountain-related images.
%K oral memory
%K andes
%K culture of conquest
%K sixteenth century.
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