Espectrografías de La invención de América: asedios y cenizas en la historiografíade Edmundo O’Gorman
The purpose of this article is to explore the spectral harassments in Mexican historiography which O’Gorman dealt with; those which he attempted to spell in his writings and keep reappearing among us until today. By the spectral we understand the conceptions about the writing of history that objecti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/63423 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to explore the spectral harassments in Mexican historiography which O’Gorman dealt with; those which he attempted to spell in his writings and keep reappearing among us until today. By the spectral we understand the conceptions about the writing of history that objectify the past making it into a thing, and leaving out an idea of history as relationship of sense, of interpretation, and as embedding the historian in its own narratives. Posed as a question: What kind of specters did besiege O´Gorman´s historical narratives, those which he dealt with and constitute the core of his discourse? |
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| ISSN: | 1626-0252 |