The idea of History in the "History of the Kingdom of Quito of the South America" of the Jesuit Juan de Velasco
Keywords:
Juan de Velasco, Natural History, Kingdom of Quito, Criollismos, Myth.
Abstract
The Jesuit Juan de Velasco’s History of the kingdom of Quito of South America has been a continually disintegrated work in the course of his development. Written in the year 1798 it was condemned to the incomprehension because the incapacity to adjuste to the scientific standards of the time. The analysis from it's unity reveals a way to do History that, protected in the Historiographical Jesuitical tradition the West Indies, they defined a particular way of being and feeling associated to a creole differentiates identity about the indigenous and peninsular subjects.Downloads
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Published
2012-10-23
How to Cite
Barrera F. (2012). The idea of History in the "History of the Kingdom of Quito of the South America" of the Jesuit Juan de Velasco. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 41, 299-319. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2012.v41.40306
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Young Criticism
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