Jauja: territorio que alimenta de aquí a allá

Abstract

The Indian chroniclers, after Prehispanic cities fell around 1530, were some of the first to shed light on this New World land, set within a Peruvian valley. The assimilation of American geography offered a great influx of stories and legends that captured and refreshed the imagination of the Iberian Peninsula. Hispanic literature elaborated upon how the medieval land of Cockaigne is represented as a landscape or space of abundance, wealth and pleasure, becoming the America cornucopia, also addressed as land of Jauja. My work analyses how this geographical referent traveled from Europe to America and how it returned.