El romanticismo y las fronteras de la transculturación

Abstract

This paper develops the problem of cultural contacts from the perspective of transculturation, in particular the role of Romanticism as a central case of the transfer of heterodox literary currents. This heterodox movement, critical of the “Old World,” was both an index of and factor in modern transculturation processes. This transculturation takes on particular resonance in the Americas, and specifically in the Mexican “second romanticism”. These resonances allow us to study the complexity and the frontiers of the processes of transculturation.