The Chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal: New World and Old World realities
Keywords:
Chronicle, New world, SpeechAbstract
The work presents the chronicle of Gaspar de Carvajal entitled Descubrimiento del Río de las Amazonas, which portrays the expedition of Francisco de Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro in 1541/1542 when they crossed the Amazon River. In the work, we note the description of the conquest of the New World, which meant an approximation with the ideals of the Old World. Two distinct realities that gained representation in this process. The new scenario full of contrasts that emerged before the curious eyes of the conquerors, would gradually become a place where they would confirm the existence of what they had already taken as truth, mainly due to the reading of chivalry novels and an ethnocentric view of the New World. Myths also spurred exploration and domination of new territories. For this, bibliographic studies on the themes were developed, using authors such as Irving (1996), Pizarro (2009), HeufemannBarría (2014), Mignolo (1982), Almeida (2013) among others. The result of this work seeks to present the realities of the New World and the Old World present in Carvajal's speech and the chronicle's contribution to future research on the subject.