¿IMITACIÓN O SUBVERSIÓN? LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE HEROÍNAS INDÍGENAS EN LAS ELEGÍAS DE VARONES ILUSTRES DE INDIAS.

This article explores the intertextual relation between Juan de Castellanos' Elegías... and Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, arguing that every time Castellanos refers to Ercilla's text he does so with an iconoclastic impulse that leads him to either transform or reject the model. In this sense, the reference that presumably explains why Castellanos preferred the epic to historiography does not prove that he indeed "imitated" Ercilla, but rather reveals a crisis in the poetic practice of imitatio triggered by the debates surrounding the conquest and colonization of the New World. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]