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  • Chapter 3 - The Conquest of Space in the Relación del Descubrimiento del Rio Marañón by Gerónimo de Ypori (c. 1630)

  • from Part I - Land, Space, Territory
  • Edited by Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University, Amber Brian, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
    Published online:
    25 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 48-62

  • Summary

    This chapter examines Friar Gerónimo de Ypori’s Relacion about the controversial expedition led by Pedro de Ursúa into the Amazon Basin (1560-1561). This expedition led to the rise of the infamous Lope de Aguirre, leader of the Marañones soldiers and explorers. Ypori’s account intended to understand the unknown Amazonian space through description. In doing so, the writer carries out an epistemological exercise to exert sovereignty over a placethat is amorphous in the eyes of his European readers and “uncovers it” for them. Departing from Mary Louise Pratt’s and Edward Said’s discussions about the close connections between writing, cartography, geography, conquest and colonial control, this chapter focuses on the complexity of modes of discourse and ways of writing that were further influenced by the transition of the Spanish legal and bureaucratic writing models into the colonial space of the New World.