Héroes y villanos del Nuevo Mundo en la Historia General y natural de las Indias de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2004.v61.i2.134Keywords:
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, heroes, rhetoric, moral historyAbstract
Modern scholars analyze the chronicles of the Indies as a set of accounts, reports, ways of narrating the lived experiences in the New World, which were tinged with providentialism, mesianism and other value judgments from their rhetoric structure and judeo- Christian pastoral. The Historia by Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) is a perfect example. Although the Historia contains various elements of style that are representative of a genre whose main quality has undoubtedly to do with historiography, it incorporates many allegorical and imaginative levels belonging to a literary textual formation. In this article I shall explore both the construction of a model of Christian hero, and its reverse, as literary figures in the elaboration of a imperialistic and colonial historiography.
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