Date of Award
2008
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Horswell, Michael J.
Abstract
The chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century, Spanish writer Ramon J. Sender's novel, La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), reverses the historical discourse in order to use Aguirre's attack on the "Lettered City," to criticize the intellectuals who supported Franco's regime in Spain, as well as the Catholic Church. This thesis's critical reading of the source chronicles on which Sender based his novel leads to a more profound understanding of both the early modem imperial and the modem fascist violence unleashed, not only by supposed "tyrants-scapegoats" the likes of Aguirre, but by power itself: that of monarchies and dictators.
Extent
142 p.
Recommended Citation
Tellez, Espiga Enrique, "Miradas transatlanticas del rebelde: Una reinterpretacion de Lope de Aguirre a traves de las cronicas y de Ia novela del exilio de Ramon J. Sender" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1514.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1514
Identifier
FA00000969
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters