The Smile of the Slave: Synthesis and Protest in Alfonso Reyes
Keywords
Alfonso Reyes, identity, nation-building
Keywords
Alfonso Reyes, identity, nation-building
Abstract
In this essay, the author traces the rise of "mestizaje", first as it emerges historically as a political category harnessed to nation-building in late-nineteenth-century Mexico, and then insofar as it informs the work of the essayist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), one of the most influential theorists of Mexican and Latin American cultural identity of the past century.
Published
2005-04-10
Section
Articles / Artículos