America: Conformacion Colonialista

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Cuando Gabriel García Márquez recibió en 1982 el Premio Nobel de Literatura abrió su discurso con un homenaje dedicado a Antonio Pigafetta y a su «libro breve y fascinante, en el cual ya se vislumbran los gérmenes de nuestras novelas de hoy». Este libro relata la expedición, financiada por la Corona de Castilla, de las cinco naves al mando del portugués Magallanes, que, el 10 de agosto de 1519, partía de Sevilla con el fin de buscar el camino más corto hasta las "islas de las Especias". Tres años más tarde, el 8 de septiembre de 1522, y al mando del vasco Juan Sebastián Elcano,...

Tanto en la "cultura popular" como en el mundo letrado, México es determinante en las concepciones acerca de América Latina existentes en Estados Unidos. Por ende, su historiografía en torno a México constituye un lugar privilegiado para explorar los "imaginarios históricos" sobre América Latina en dicho país. Tales imaginarios adquirieron novedosas connotaciones hacia la década de 1960 debido al cambio de paradigmas políticos y culturales, que incidió de formas complejas sobre el mundo intelectual, por lo cual la historiografía estadunidense sobre México comprende un espectro de...

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