The temptation of legitimacy: strategies and discursive oscillations to achieve representation in the Huarochirí Manuscript

Abstract

This paper analyzes how the influence of the extirpation of idolatry and the perspective of the writer of the Huarochiri Manuscript go parallel, and walk towards a (mis) encounter amongst the voices of the subject of enunciation and the enunciated. In the analysis of chapters 20 and 21, in which the devil Llocllayhuancu has tempted Don Cristóbal Choquecaxa, I will demonstrate the intention of Don Cristóbal to project himself with the attributes of a good Christian by using his faith to be part of legitimate religious circuit. At the same time, the survival of pre-Hispanic beliefs, questions the legitimacy of the indio converso and postulates the active presence of an Andean alternative discourse.