Los náufragos del XVI. La experiencia en el mundo del otro

• Authors: Marešová Jaroslava

Title variants

EN

THE 16TH CENTURY CASTAWAYS: AN EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF THE OTHER

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The shipwreck accounts of the 16th century are not only fascinating documents about very extreme experiences, but they can be seen also as interesting literary documents. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the most famous Spanish castaway, was forced to spend almost ten years among different indigenous tribes. His account is a testimony of his unusual experiences and it is very interesting from the point of view of narrative techniques since he had to find the way to narrate his strange story. It is also important to compare his account with other shipwreck accounts since they share many images and motifs.

Keywords

ES

relaciones de naufragios; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; el Nuevo Mundo; esclavitud; transformación física; discurso desmitificador

EN

shipwreck accounts; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; the New World; servitude; physical transformation; demythification discourse

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: Special Issue: El mundo de la literatura
• Pages: 33-41

Contributors

author

Marešová Jaroslava

• Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta