Abstract

ALDAO, María Inés. “No ha sido mi fortuna favorable”: Cuauhtemoc in the novohispanic half-blooded chronicles. Recial [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.22, pp.183-197.  Epub Dec 08, 2022. ISSN 2718-658X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v13.n22.39355.

In this article I analyze a character that is relevant to the conquest and history of America: the tenochca warrior Cuauhtemoc, also known as the last tlatoque mexica, famous for resisting the attack of the conquerors during the siege of Mexico. The Indian Chronicles do not deal with this character in detail and they only mention his resistance during the war and his imprisonment, surrender and murder, from a perspective that differs between texts. This time, I focus on the representation of Cuauhtemoc in the novohispanic half-blooded chronicles written by Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Bernardino de Sahagún, Diego Durán, Cristóbal del Castillo, Domingo Francisco Chimalpahin, among others, to analyze the different enunciative positionings which explain the argumentative condition of the texts that retell the fall of Tenochtitlan and its protagonists. This contrastive analysis intends to highlight and make visible the implications and complexities of the colonial subject as well as the silence that surrounds the key figures of the history of the conquest and their discursive representations.

Keywords : Cuauhtemoc; half-blooded chronicle; conquest; Nueva España; fall of Tenochtitlan.

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