Abstract

DE TORO, Alfonso. Escenificaciones de la hibridez en el discurso de la conquista: Analogía y comparación como estrategias translatológicas para la construcción de la otredad. Atenea (Concepc.) [online]. 2006, n.493, pp. 87-149. ISSN 0718-0462.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-04622006000100006.

Using diverse post-modern and post-colonial theories, the present essay aims to examine how the Discovery and the Conquest of America was an anthropological, ethnological, philosophical, cultural, religious, artistic, economical, and historical gigantic ‘translation’ process.  On the one hand, the Spaniards create a new culture and civilisation and are the true initiators of the Modern Age (expanding the theses of Elliot and criticizing those of Greenblatt). On the other hand, the Spaniards are caught up in a long and difficult process of hybridization leading to the construction of the Other, a process that takes place beyond their will or intention. We show how these hybrid processes operate in strategies of rhetoric, gesture, iconography and arts; for example, in the Historia verdadera  de la Conquista de Nueva España (1568) of Bernal Díaz del Castillo or in the Malinche-iconography of the tlaxcaltecas

Keywords : Performance; hybridity; analogy; translatological strategies; constructions of Otherness.