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Author(s): Stefanie Massmann
Source: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año 39, No. 78 (2013), pp. 209-232
Published by: Centro de Estudios Literarios "Antonio Cornejo Polar"- CELACP
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Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
Año XXXIX, N° 78. Lima-Boston, 2do semestre de 2013, pp. 209-232
Stefanie Massmann
Universidad Andrés Bello
Resumen
Este trabajo estudia el modo en que los relatos de navegación al Nuevo Mundo
representan, fundamentalmente durante el siglo XVI, los océanos que se
cruzan. Estas inéditas representaciones se producen en un contexto de grandes
revoluciones del conocimiento geográfico y en concomitancia con el
nacimiento de una serie de prácticas, imágenes y concepciones sobre el espacio
y el territorio. Tal como sucede con respecto a los nuevos territorios y sus
habitantes, se mostrará que los textos coloniales no sólo "inventan" un
continente sino un nuevo orden planetario, incluidos sus océanos.
Palabras clave: relatos de navegación, representación del océano, imaginarios
geográficos coloniales, geografía renacentista.
Abstract
This essay studies the way in which voyage narratives represent the sea during
the 16th century. These representations arise in the context of an important
widening of the geographic horizons, as well as in the onset of new practices,
images and conceptions about the space and the territory. Analogously to the
invention of America as a continent with its territorry and inhabitants observed
in colonial texts, the voyage narratives conceive a new world order taking also
the oceans into account.
Keywords: sailing narratives, representation of the sea, geographic colonial
imagination, Renaissance geography
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unmarked by its human history and thus cannot be monumentalized in the tra-
dition of colonial landscapes, a turn to the seas as history can produce an equa-
lizing effect" (DeLoughrey 21). Para DeLoughrey es precisamente esta alteridad
del océano la que abre la posibilidad a escrituras que desestabilizan el telos del
movimiento a través del océano, el relato heroico de las aventuras marítimas o
las jerarquías de raza y clase.
Hay otros rasgos de los relatos de navegantes que pueden explicarse por
la búsqueda de mercancías, como la presencia de un imaginario maravilloso que
utiliza la tradición medieval no ya en su sentido primigenio, sino en relación
con los bienes que se pretende encontrar en el Oriente. Stephen Greenblatt ha
señalado con agudeza que, en Colón, las maravillas que describe justifican sus
viajes, que de otra forma pueden considerarse un fracaso ante la imposibilidad
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Bibliografía citada
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