This article examines the reasons that have led accounts of events to be considered marginal literature and thus, to be out of the literary canon. The theorical work is exemplified with the edition, production analysis and content analysis of the Relación breve del raro, y lastimoso caso que sucedió en la Isla de San Miguel, en dos de Setiembre, lunes a mediodía después de comer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13035/H.2022.10.01.38