An intricate web of ideas: intellectuals, essays and identity-building in Latin América (1898-1914)

Author(s)

Valdir Donizete dos Santos Junior

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-11-27

Examining board members

Maria Ligia Coelho Prado; Maria Helena Rolim Capelato; Pedro Meira Monteiro

• Advisor: Maria Ligia Coelho Prado

Abstract

I intend to analyze in this research three major essays produced in Latin America in the beginning of the 20th Century: El porvenir de las naciones hispanoamericanas (1899), by Mexican Francisco Bulnes (1847-1924); A América Latina: males de origem (1905), by Brazilian Manoel Bomfim (1868- 1932) and Les démocraties latines de lAmerique (1912), by Peruvian Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953). I will emphasize the problems around the circulation of ideas and the building of identities in the subcontinent. The comparison among these three essays will allow me to discuss a whole set of common themes and issues related to political ideas in Latin America at that time and to think about Latin Americas place during the so called Age of Empire. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/04735-0 - Francisco Bulnes, Manoel Bomfim and Francisco Garcia Calderon: interpretations of the past and identity-building in Latin America
• Grantee: Valdir Donizete dos Santos Junior
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master