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Scholars often see in the chapters of Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva coránica y buen gobierno devoted to the history of the conquest of Peru a strong critique of Spanish chronicles accounts that ground his claim of restitution, allegedly the work's central claim. Through a close reading of its other historical chapters, those dealing with pre-Hispanic Andean history, this paper offers a new interpretation of the text. It argues that the Nueva coránica is a theologicallyorganized didactic text whose goal is to produce in the reader a radically new way of seeing the world, and that the historical narrative of the pre-Hispanic past in particular lays the foundation that will render intelligible in an alternative way the present of the colonial society and its future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how the influence of the extirpation of idolatry and the perspective of the writer of the Huarochirí 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]