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Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra
- Author(s):
- Elizabeth B. Davis (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Early Modern History, Imperialism & Exploration, Narrative theory and Narratology, Spanish Golden Age Literature
- Subject(s):
- Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Area, Rivadeneira, Diego Portichuelo de, active 1657, Transatlantic voyages, Missions, Shipwreck survival, Authors and patrons, Captivity
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Atlantic World, Caribbean storms, Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra, Early Modern transatlantic voyages, narratology, Patronage, Shipwreck survivors, Spanish Indies fleets, Spanish missionaries, Time and temporality
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/rkm2-r971
- Abstract:
- Using the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in which Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra manipulates time in order to achieve different aesthetic effects. By playing with and disturbing chronology while simultaneously modulating the narrative voice, the writer manages to swerve the discourse of his narrative away from bare historical facts, in favor of a more subjective expression of the travails and potential catastrophes of early modern saltwater sailing. By altering temporalities in this way, Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra creates a text that is much more than an explanation of “what went wrong” on his maritime voyage from Peru to Spain.
- Notes:
- This book chapter is included in The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture, edited by Rodrigo Cacho Casal and Caroline Egan. This volume was published by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group (London and New York, 2022). Professor Davis's essay is Chapter 4 of the book (pages 61-75).
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