Abstract
This chapter argues that the European utopian tradition was significantly transformed by Latin American essayists in the early twentieth century. The author focuses on the Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes, whose works were crucial in defining the notion of "the New World" as a postcolonial space, as well as on José Vasconcelos's widely read utopian essay La raza cósmica (1925).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ESSAY |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 141-153 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781009022255 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781316519776 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 3 2022 |
Keywords
- Alfonso Reyes
- Decolonization
- José
- Latin America
- Mestizaje
- Mexico
- New World
- Positivism
- Utopia
- Vasconcelos
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