Journal Article

ALTERAR LOS MÁRGENES: ANOMALÍAS EN UN MAPA DEL CUZCO 1

Parada, Esperanza López

2021

Overview

According to his proposal, maps work not as documents, but as stories with a capacity for argumentation, intrigue, discursive course and climate conclusion. [...]their reading, at least in their colonial mode, is full of dangers, especially if they portray marginal regions, borders and peripheries with respect to the centre of imperial power. On some of these occasions, changes, tropisms, alterations and mixtures occur on the sides of the representation that make the map a hypertext with a strong index load, in a less semiotic than Benjaminian sense of the term and, therefore, capable of going beyond its first referential and illustrative condition. Keywords: maps, margins, indiciality, colonial power I. Fue Michel Foucault el que, al hablar de un régimen material del enunciado, venía a insistir en el carácter acumulativo y archivero de todo discurso. Tampoco hay una sola mención por parte de Benzoni, el autor de la crónica que De Bry ilustra, a esas extrañas actividades -trapecistas, comerciantes, idólatras o bailarines- en los márgenes de la capital del imperio inca, cuya descripción dentro del texto resulta tan esquemática como inventada.

• Publisher: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar - CELACP
• Subject: Argumentation / Colonialism / Hypertext / Ortelius, Abraham (1527-1598) / Semiotics