Abstract

FOSSA, Lydia. Intimidation, violence, and death in the account of the first Spanish incursion into the heart of Tawantinsuyu (1533-1534). Recial [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.22, pp.48-68.  Epub Dec 08, 2022. ISSN 2718-658X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v13.n22.39346.

Most scholars who study the texts of the first years of the Spanish invasion and conquest identify the authors presented below as "chroniclers of the conquest" or as "soldier chroniclers" and their texts as "conquest discourses" brimming with a “triumphalistic tone” (Altunas, 2004, p. 11). Rather, I propose, almost 20 years later and from a post-colonial perspective, to call them “chroniclers of the invasion” or “chroniclers of war”. This new terminology, more descriptive and less euphemistic, or more from the perspective of the colonized and less from that of the colonizer, strips the early texts of their heroic garb by treating the Spanish as invaders, with the negative charge that goes with it, and not as conquerors, a term that entails the positive connotations of heroism and dedication.

Keywords : chroniclers of the invasion; Francisco Pizarro; euphemisms; sixteenth century; Tawantinsuyu.

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