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Record Nr.

UNINA9910659834603321

Autore

Mayorga Esteban <1977->

Titolo

Galápagos : imaginarios de la evolución textual en las islas encantadas / / Esteban Mayorga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-61249-608-3

1-61249-609-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 203 pages :) : illustrations, map ;

Collana

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; ; Volume 77

Disciplina

305.8009866

Soggetti

National characteristics, Ecuadorian

Galapagos Islands History

Galapagos Islands In literature

Galapagos Islands Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

La primera crónica colonial de unas islas imaginarias: Carta a su majestad de Tomás de Berlanga -- Metahistoria en el archipielago, la primera ficción colonial: Historia de Los Incas de Sarmiento de Gamboa -- La fluidez de la selección natural: The Voyage of the Beagle de Charles Darwin -- La  relación entre el  Transcendentalismo y las Galápagos: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles de Herman Melville -- Los piratas  en Galápagos y la formación del estado-nación: El pirata del Guayas de Manuel Bilbao -- La construcción de la identidad galapaguense y ecuatoriana: Galápagos a la vista de Bolívar Naveda -- La fuerza del mercado y la perspectiva ecocrítica: Galápagos: Huellas en el paraíso de Hugo Idrovo.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book, written in Spanish, takes a literary and cultural studies model to explain the textual representation of the Galápagos Islands since their discovery until present day. The main argument suggests that the depiction of this crucial space for modernity in Western thought, given the rhetoric of travel and fiction writers, transforms the insular area with the intention of conceiving disparate forms of political displacement. Specifically, these depictions show several conflicts that



arose from the seeking of identity in Ecuador during the nation-building project that took place at the time. As a result of colonial enterprises (scientific excursions, exile, tourism, journalistic pieces, expeditions, etc.), travel writings of the Galápagos condition the formation of the state and its national imagery because of the extreme symbolic capital of the archipelago and the desire of Latin American intellectuals to belong to a cosmopolitan territory"--