Narrativa e identidad : el mestizaje y su representación historiográfica

Abstract

To study the case of the mestizo and of the miscegenation in the today denominated Latin America, as it would become adecuate to denominate it in the last third of the XIX century, stirs up to overturn the look in the contents of the terms mestizo and miscegenation.Although their study keeps narrow relationship with the uses that have spread of the same ones, in the narrative of the different ones that have looked for to characterize Latin America in cultural terms. From there the necessity to poke in the historical connotation granted to the terms mestizo, miscegenation and to crossbreed, proposed from the western canon and the narratives schemed from the periphery to the help of the western space and the cultural globalization.