Abstract
In my dissertation entitled “Masculinidad Misionera en la Frontera. Jesuitas y Resistencia Mapuche en la Araucanía (Siglos XVI y XVII),” I study a varied group of texts such as letters, cartas anuas, historias and relaciones, and legal documents such as indigenous wills in order to conceptualize what I call the “internal frontier” of the Spanish empire in Chile as an interactive contact zone between the indigenous domain and Spanish settlements. Intercultural encounters were defined by acts of resistance and negotiation, transforming both missionary and indigenous cultural and religious practices. Under the critical lens of masculinity studies, I analyze the construction of a local Jesuit masculinity and the performative aspects of the various intercultural encounters between Mapuche people and Spaniards that were mediated by Jesuit missionaries and motivated Indigenous migration movements towards urban centers. Compiling a corpus of more than one hundred indigenous wills, I recreate the dynamics of indigenous forms of adaptation to the colonial urban context through the analysis of material culture and discursive strategies alongside their negotiation with the hegemonic subjects of the colonial city, a site where indigenous groups increasingly formed part of the multicultural urban social map. My project addresses the central role of peripheral areas in the shaping of colonial dynamics and identities, in dialogue with colonial studies, border studies, indigenous studies, religious studies, masculinity studies, and performance studies. My research findings contribute on our understanding of intercultural interactions in remote areas as well as colonial frontier dynamics.
Committee Chair
Stephanie Kirk
Committee Members
William Acree, Carmen Fernandez-Salvador, Javier Garcia-Liendo, Elzbieta Sklodowska,
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Author's Department
Romance Languages and Literature: Hispanic Studies
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
Spring 5-15-2017
Language
Spanish (es)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/K7CF9NJK
Author's ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2607-6121
Recommended Citation
Jaque, Javiera Susana, "Misiones Jesuitas en la Frontera de Arauco: Resistencia Mapuche, Negociaci_n y Movilidad Cultural en la Periferia Colonial (1593-1641)" (2017). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 1115.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/K7CF9NJK
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