Indigenous Andean Women in Colonial Textual Discourses

Author

Sara Guengerich

Publication Date

8-27-2009

Abstract

This dissertation combines historical and literary analysis to challenge a history of literary studies that reads colonial texts as reflecting a real historical domination of indigenous Andean women in a patriarchal society. Through a comparative examination of colonial chronicles and archival documents, I reconsider the portrayal of these women as having played the role of victims from the very beginning of colonial relations through the seventeenth century. Through these sources, I unveil these womens discursive agency that was expressed in archival documents, only to be suppressed in colonial chronicles and contemporary literary criticism.

Degree Name

Spanish & Portuguese (PhD)

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Spanish and Portuguese

First Committee Member (Chair)

Gauderman, Kimberly

Second Committee Member

Cardenas, Anthony

Third Committee Member

Lopez-Chavez, Celia

Sponsors

Latin American and Iberian Institute Ph.D. Fellowship, University of New Mexico. Elka Klein Travel Grant, University of Judaism. Research Travel Project, University of New Mexico. Tinker Foundation & Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico Feminist Research Institute, University of New Mexico.

Language

English

Keywords

Indians, Women, Andes, Colonial, Gender, Peru

Document Type

Dissertation

Recommended Citation

Guengerich, Sara. "Indigenous Andean Women in Colonial Textual Discourses." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/span_etds/20