Writing practices and memory construction. The culture of colonial Baroque in "Cautiverio feliz"

Abstract

The present study addresses the problem of writing and memory construction on the process of colonial domination, focusing the analysis on the Pineda y Bascuñán manuscript ‘Cautiverio feliz y razón individual de las guerras dilatadas del reino de Chile’ (1673). After a review by the main traditions reading text (military, literary, political and anthropological), from the colonial period to republican, correlative of different institutional knowledge, it is postulated his inscription on the cultural codes of colonial Baroque, with the specificity of the confliction border of the Old regime during the xvii century.