Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | America: The Tale of a Continent
Chapter | La figura del indígena en Dios trajo la sombra

La figura del indígena en Dios trajo la sombra

Una revisión de la Conquista y el encuentro con el otro desde la poesía histórica de Jorge Enrique Adoum

Abstract

Dios trajo la sombra, the third of the collection of poems Los cuadernos de la tierra, by Jorge Enrique Adoum, poetises the Conquest of the Inca Empire. The arrival of Francisco Pizarro and his men and their actions until the capture and death of Atahualpa are the anecdote behind a review of the process of Discovery and Conquest of America. Jorge Enrique Adoum questions, in his verses, the official historical discourse, established by the same Chronicle of the Indies. His main interest is to show the process of the discovery of the other, both for the indigenous people and for the conquerors, in that profound collision of cultures. Retaking and subverting secular topics, this historical poem reconstructs the figure of the indigenous and gives back its own voice, in a clear vindication of the vision of the vanquished.


Open access | Peer reviewed

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

Keywords Otherness • The Notebooks of the Earth • Historical poetry • Jorge Enrique Adoum • Cultural identity

Copyright © 2019 Miguel Ángel Gómez Soriano. 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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