The texts of the chroniclers of the Rio de La Plata: the cultural dimension

Abstract

This article relates the conquest of the natural and human space in the Río de la Plata from the one-sided view of the Spanish. The field of interest is focused on the cultural dimension, where stories of the chroniclers built the historiographical perspective found difficulty linguistic transmit the experience of a completely unknown world to which we must add that they did so with a vision or false consciousness, carrying them to a particular selection of the observable. Before it dominated the individual stories of experiences of indigenous people who are profiled elements that were based on widespread discontent, which came to question all the economic, political and social reality of the conquest. There the birth of literary tale, and poems figures, takes place story that will appear over the subsequent centuries forming a solid stream for American literature.