Alexander von Humboldt, writer and reader of Hispanic travels: Postcolonial Eurocentrism or intertextual alterity?

Starting from a vital review of A. de Humboldt’s journey to the New World, his work as a reader of chronicles of the Indies is particularly examined, a well-connected part of his editorial work as a scientific traveler. All of this serves to reflect on the intertextual debt of travel chronicles and,...

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Autor: Del Pino-Díaz, Fermín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/22812
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/sociales/article/view/22812
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Humboldt
Travels
Chronicles of the Indies
Intertextuality
Postcolonialism
viajes
Crónicas de Indias
intertextualidad
poscolonialismo
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Sumario:Starting from a vital review of A. de Humboldt’s journey to the New World, his work as a reader of chronicles of the Indies is particularly examined, a well-connected part of his editorial work as a scientific traveler. All of this serves to reflect on the intertextual debt of travel chronicles and, above all, on Humboldt’s particularly honest and generous relationship with the Spanish- American republic of letters and with its plural civilization. All this leads the author to question some accepted paradigms within the intellectual field called postcolonialism.