Lisa Voigt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831991
- eISBN:
- 9781469600284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807831991.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter describes how the mestizo author El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega concludes his account of Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida with a tale of Floridians in Spain, whose displacement ...
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This chapter describes how the mestizo author El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega concludes his account of Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida with a tale of Floridians in Spain, whose displacement reflects the author's own distance from his Peruvian homeland since his early twenties. It traces La Florida's multiple crossings in order to explore the relationship between Garcilaso's strategies of self-authorization and his reworking of the motifs of captivity and exile. For Garcilaso, transplanted individuals such as captives and exiles are essential to transmitting accurate and useful knowledge across cultural borders, yet La Florida's final episode offers a negative example of such a mediating role. It becomes a narrative of a double crossing: a transatlantic round-trip and a duplicitous revenge.Less
This chapter describes how the mestizo author El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega concludes his account of Hernando de Soto's expedition to Florida with a tale of Floridians in Spain, whose displacement reflects the author's own distance from his Peruvian homeland since his early twenties. It traces La Florida's multiple crossings in order to explore the relationship between Garcilaso's strategies of self-authorization and his reworking of the motifs of captivity and exile. For Garcilaso, transplanted individuals such as captives and exiles are essential to transmitting accurate and useful knowledge across cultural borders, yet La Florida's final episode offers a negative example of such a mediating role. It becomes a narrative of a double crossing: a transatlantic round-trip and a duplicitous revenge.
