Entre Imperial Eyes e “información fidedigna”. Reflexiones sobre la representación de América Central en textos de viajeros alemanes

 

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Upphovsman: Mackenbach, Werner
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2016
Beskrivning:The texts written by European and North American travelers -travelogues, letters, reports, etc.- have played a major role in the production of Central American otherness and have had its repercussions in Central American literatures. Nowadays, there is an on-going debate about the value and epistemological status of these texts for the development of historical knowledge about Central American societies. The essay analyses three texts by German travelers in two historical key moments -mid nineteenth century and the nineteen-eighties of twentieth century- in the light of this theoretical and methodological debate and asks for the relevance of European travelogues for the representations of Central American realities and otherness in Central American literatures themselves from a transhistorical, epistemic, and “representational” rather than historical/ historiographical approach.
Land:Portal de Revistas UNA
Organisation:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Språk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/8414
Länkar:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/8414
Nyckelord:Travelogues
German travelers
Central America
representation
otherness
literature
Relatos de viaje
viajeros alemanes
Centroamérica
representación
otredad
literatura