Acquiring a Voice: The Plebeians Speak in Early Colonial Río de la Plata

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Chapter 20 - Acquiring a Voice: The Plebeians Speak in Early Colonial Río de la Plata

from Part V - Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022

Loreley El Jaber

Edited by

Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and

Amber Brian

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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli: Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Amber Brian: Affiliation:
University of Iowa

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The Río de la Plata, the location itself and the journeys towards that destination, hit by failure and discouragement, helped build hostile discourse about the land but also gave rise to a series of scenes about what has not been found before. Therefore, new ways of envisaging this land came to light, as well as the denunciations of Europeans’ excesses. This chapter studies the legal environment where stories of hostility and degradation reveal the forgotten voice of the plebs. The conquest and colonization of the Rio de la Plata then functions not only as the creator of a discourse of deception but also as a scenario that enables the rising of the marginalized voice of seamen, among others.

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Plebs judicial archive Río de la Plata testimony treason European marginal voices subjectivity Sebastián Caboto Spanish seamen

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Information: Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800 , pp. 301 - 314

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Print publication year: 2022

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