Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: more fixing- part where ftnote 10 occurs and footnote 10


      The Genealogia is a text immersed in the form and
baroque rhetoric of colonial legalism. It was inspired to a
certain extent, although with a more immediately utilitarian
purpose, by the sort of geneology that Garcilaso constructed a
century and a half earlier in the Comentarios reales to justify
the right of the Inca aristocracy to share in the administration
of the viceroyalty with the representatives of the Spanish
crown.  In the light of Jose Gabriel's subsequent role in the
rebellion of 1780, one can see latent in his intention of securing
his claim to be the direct descendant of the last Inca the aim of
eventually defeating the colonial regime and occupying himself
the position of Inca in a restoration of the Inca state itself.
Though, like Sor Juana's Respuesta a Sor Filotea, the 
Genealogia has elements of autobiography and family history,
it is more like an expanded version of a prueba de limpieza de
sangre than an autobiography as such.  The rhetorical
elaboration of the document, which seems excessive for what is
after all a formal legal petition, is intended to establish Jose
Gabriel's mastery of the aristocratizing codes of the viceregal
ciudad letrada.  It defines a parity between himself and his
Spanish and creole interlocutors. By contrast, his brother's
Memorias, which appear some fifty years later, is an
autobiography in the modern sense and reveals an entirely new
rhetoric and persona.  The Memorias posits Juan Bautista's
experience in Spanish prisons after the defeat of the rebellion
as a metonomny of the degradation to which Spanish colonial
rule has subjected America.  If the Genealogia anticipates the
rebellion of 1780 by establishing the legitimacy of Jose
Gabriel's claim to be the descendant of Tupac Amaru I, the
Memorias articulates a sense of the continuity between that
rebellion and the liberal revolutions of the creoles nearly half
a century  later.  It is the sort of text that Bolivar or San
Martin would have read with pleasure10.


footnote
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10] There exists a perhaps apocryphal letter of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru to
Bolivar, in which he writes among other things that the blood of "mi 
tierno y venerado hermano .. fue el ruego que habia preparado aquella 
tierra para fructificar los mejores frutos que el gran Bolivar habra de 
recoger con su mano valerosa y llena de la mayor generosidad." Several 
historians have suggersted a link between the "Memories" and the program 
advanced by the party of Belgrano in the Wars of Independence, which 
included the idea of restoring the Inca empire.