Representaciones temporales en la construcción del espacio y el sujeto atlántico en el siglo XVII

Abstract

<p>"Representaciones temporales en la construcción del espacio y el sujeto atlántico en el</p><p>siglo XVII" is a study of the different representations of time, temporality and space in</p><p>literary and historical texts such as the chronicles that originated in Peru and Spain. This</p><p>project seeks to understand the new configuration of time and space that appeared at this</p><p>time and that was represented in literary texts during the Spanish Baroque period. What is</p><p>most important is that the Atlantic is not only an ocean that separated two realities but</p><p>also a new space that made possible the emergence of a new subject who combined pre-</p><p>Hispanic culture and the occidental episteme. This new subject is the product of a</p><p>translation failure of the concepts that were transported back and forth across the</p><p>Atlantic. During the XVIIth century, many literary and historical texts are produced in</p><p>order to understand this new subject. As an immediate consequence of the encounter</p><p>between American and European epistemes, thinkers and writers in all Europe begin to</p><p>hesitate between "the real" and "the images"; a crisis of the real begins. In the Americas,</p><p>writers such as Guaman Poma or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz who produce narratives which</p><p>seek to interpret the new realities brought about by the encounter with the Europeans,</p><p>whose writings do not follow to either indigenous or European conventions. These</p><p>writers mix pre-Hispanic and Western traditions to account for the new forms of</p><p>subjectivity that the conquest produced. Similarly, Spanish writers such as Cervantes or</p><p>Calderón re-work traditional European conventions in order to understand and interpret</p><p>this new historical moment/subjectivity.</p>