RHETOR 151 Chapter 12: R151 Reading 4.4.2017 (1) Seed_Failing to Marvel
31 Mar 2017
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Failing to marvel: atahualpa"s encounter with the world. Encounter between atahualpa and the spaniards in cajamarca plaza on. Starting point for understanding the conquest history of peru. Classic tale of upward social mobility for spaniards. Proposal: reread the encounter in light of a critical tradition deriving from literary criticism and anthropology, rather than historiography. Idea of writing as cultural superiority, alphabet writing"s privileged status: certain peoples write and others do not . This belief operated in one of the earliest spanish narratives of the encounter between fray valverde and the inca chief. Focus on how rhetorical strategies of beginning and narrative. Narrative that claims to tell what really happened - realism authority create different cultural contexts and spawn divergent interpretations. Only european had access to writing and natives did not (only mastered writing later or those who wrote were not eyewitnesses) Reconstructing what happened by consensus - but there is only one possible source of consensus.
