Una corte de caballeros para elNuevo Mundo: los proyectos (utópicos) de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo

Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana

关键词: Key words: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo;    Indies;    Conquest;    colonization;    New World utopias. ;   

DOI  :  10.4000/corpusarchivos.1075

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, I plan to look into two different proposals for the colonization of Central America —which were founding to Spanish colonization policies throughout Spanish America— from a paradigmatic writer of the American Conquest: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, who was the Cronista Oficial of the Indies for the Spanish Crown during the first half of the XVIth century. This paper reveals and analyzes the Historia General y Natural de las Indias, that reproduces some of the king’s capitulations and other implicit proposals in its edifying historiographic speech. A first project, presented to and rejected by the king, proposed the transferal of noble knights who carried out “orderly” conquests in the Indies; the other, implied in the historiographic speech, pursued a model of colonial city that replicated the social forms of the Spanish metropolis. We shall trace, in this manner, certain utopian images of the New World, such as the Castilian noble hidalgo knight, the endeavor for blood “cleanliness”, the hierarchical societies, the exemplar conquistadores and the cities of control, order, repression and exclusion of otherness and crossbreeding. Methodologically, the focus of analysis is interdisciplinary: by means of Colonial Studies of History and Speech.

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