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From Eye to Tongue: Lengua in the Early Works of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

cam.issuedOnline2018-11-07
dc.contributor.authorEgan, CR
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-13T10:54:44Z
dc.date.available2018-11-13T10:54:44Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractA central feature of the narrative authority El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega constructs for himself in the <i>Comentarios reales</i> is his linguistic knowledge. As a native speaker of Quechua, Garcilaso is able to act as an interpreter—that is, a lengua—between the Andean and Spanish traditions to which he is heir. This article analyzes the forging of this authority in the first two works published by Garcilaso, his translation of the <i>Dialoghi d’amore</i> by Leone Ebreo (1590) and his history of the expedition led by Hernando de Soto to La Florida (1605). Although they pertain to very distinct genres, both of these works consider the nature and capacities of lenguas (the tongue, the interpreter), especially in relation to the eye. While in both philosophical and historiographical terms, the eye is the privileged organ, Garcilaso subtly refines this corporeal hierarchy and begins to shape the authoritative tongue that will become crucial in his later works.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.32376
dc.identifier.eissn1553-0639
dc.identifier.issn1553-0639
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285005
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
dc.publisher.urlhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/707759
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject4703 Language Studies
dc.titleFrom Eye to Tongue: Lengua in the Early Works of El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-05-16
prism.endingPage419
prism.issueIdentifier4
prism.publicationNameHispanic Review
prism.startingPage397
prism.volume86
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-05-16
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1353/hir.2018.0033

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