Escritura y conquista: Fragmentos para una historia del Español Americano

This brief work offers a set of reflections on the importance of the history of writing in America, especially on the history of writing in fundamentally oral communities, such as the Andean. To this end, the present analysis focuses on notes and comments written on this particular aspect by the Inca Garcilaso in Comentarios reales (1609) and Guaman Poma de Ayala in his Primera nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno (1615). Although this is a first approximation to the subject, this essay shows the social and cultural impact caused by the imposition of a new means of communication in the Andean world.