Talkative felipe guaman poma de ayala and the linguistic barriers of cultural resistance

Salmón D.E. · Letras (Peru) (2020) · DOI: 10.30920/letras.91.133.4

Resumen

This essay intends to demonstrate when, where, how and why a talkative chronicler expresses himself. I examine the means used by the indigenous author to provide information about the world vision of those who were conquered in their own voices. Nueva coránica y buen gobierno brings to the forefront the dilemma surrounding the language of a ladino Indian who was bilingual and multicultural and used several linguistic and iconic codes to write about an unknown world to the Spanish king. Guaman Poma's work shows Indian processes of assimilation of Castilian Spanish and Western symbolic systems. Thanks to these processes, Andean informants, translators, scribes or notaries took advantage of alphabetic grafism to make speak to those who did not have a voice in the colonial accounts. Their goal was to denounce the cultural and ideological conflicts in the Andean world.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos