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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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