“Al infierno, para siempre jamás”: the affective politics of fear in the first part of Sermones de los misterios de nuestra Santa Fe Católica, by Fernando de Avendaño

Saito Gutiérrez G. · Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana (2023) · DOI: 10.5209/alhi.93661

Resumen

From the perspective of cultural history for the close reading of colonial prose, this paper suggests that the (re)presentation of a paternalistic and punishing pedagogy in the first part of Sermones de los misterios de nuestra Santa Fe Católica, by Fernando de Avendaño, implies the constitution and implementation of both a pragmatic and a rhetorical of fear of God, hell and sin to create a situation of a christian and colonial metanoia. Considering fear as a politics of emotion, and metanoia as the Christian and integral conversion of life forms after the refutation of a non-Christian religious-cultural system, this paper analyzes how this corpus, under the ideological discourse of colonial orthodoxy, organizes a pedagogy of fear as an instrument of construction and control of the indigenous subject.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú