Abstract

COSTILLA MARTINEZ, Héctor  and  RAMIREZ SANTACRUZ, Francisco. The “Descripción de la Bahía de Santa María de Galve” (1693) by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the staging of the colonial archive. Lit. mex [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.2, pp.9-36.  Epub Aug 08, 2022. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.33.2.7731x01.

This article addresses the way in which Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, through the manuscript "Description of the Bay of Santa María de Galve" (1693), shows a series of textual relationships with discursive forms such as Relaciones Geográficas, with other texts mentioned in the manuscript (La Florida by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Naufragios by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Historia de la fundación y discurso de la provincia de Santiago de México de la orden de Predicadores by Agustín Dávila Padilla), and with the rest of the work of the Mexican polygraph. Through these intertextualities, we consider that the "Description of the Bay of Santa María de Galve" is shown as a text that reflects, on the one hand, Sigüenza and Góngora’s mastery of the colonial archive and, on the other hand, the maturity and assimilation of the cultural practices that he cultivated and put at the service of the aforementioned exploratory project at the end of the 17th century.

Keywords : Descripción de la Bahía de Santa María de Galve; Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; colonial archive; 17th century; New Spain; creole.

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