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Ramón Sánchez, « Discourse Map and Empire Building in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's 1542 La Relación », Estudios de historia novohispana, ID : 10670/1.d67rqe
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Cabeza de Vaca's 1542 narrative contains no map; however, in his effort to describe the American territory in the process of being conquered, the author ends up creating a "discourse map" in which the indigenous landscape is articulated in the ideological patterns of the Spanish Empire. In this study, I examine the ideological struggle between the indigenous and Spanish symbolic worlds through an analysis of four sites which Cabeza de Vaca identifies as follow: the place of boxed cadavers, Apalachen, Isla Malhado, and the buckle/horseshoe nail place.