O discurso de resistência e revide em Conquista Espiritual (1639), de Antonio Ruiz de Montoya : ação e reação jesuítica e indígena na Colonização Ibérica da Região do Guairá

Abstract

Conquista Espiritual (1639), written by Peruvian jesuit Antonio Ruíz de Montoya, is analyzed as a discourse of resistance and answering back, as intervention and reaction of the Jesuits and Amerindians during the Spanish colonization in the Guairá region which included the north of the state of Paraná, Brazil, during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Jesuits were the messangers of European colonialism through the introduction of a new system of contact and evangelization in the wake of the establishment of the Reductions in which the Indians were gathered against their semi-nomade life style. This is not the sole way of life that the forest dwellers had to change through the activities of the Jesuits during the 30 years of mission work in the northwestern region of the Guairá. Current dissertation analyzes Montoya's ethno-historiographic document from the point of view of contemporary thought whose analogy with the bibliography enhances elements that may clarify important items on the struggle between the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers in the region and the role of the Jesuit fathers during the discoveries and "wars" in the area. The catechetical activities, armed violence and discursive violence organized by the Indian chiefs and witchdoctors, the voice of the Amerindians and their subjectification, coupled to the disputes between plantation owners, "bandeirantes" and Spanish colonizers are focussed and discussed.