Latinoamericanismo en tiempos de descomposición

Abstract

The essays of Julio Ramos (Puerto Rico, 1957) are an example of the critical and distorted decline of the Latin Americanist discursive project that began in the nineteenth century (Andrés Bello, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Martí, José Enrique Rodó) and which became consolidated in the long essays of the short twentieth century (Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes, José Carlos Mariátegui, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada). Julio Ramos’ proposal is based on the criticism of time understood as an opportunity for progress, development and the triumphal consolidation of Modernity. For Ramos the Latin Americanist discourse experiences the times of decline that he makes visible in his interpretation of “minor” writings.