The Latin American independence: historiography, press and the Creole identity

Abstract

In this article, the author proposes a critical review of emancipation through the historiography of recent decades, paying attention to new perspectives of research in the period and the publication’s influence in the Public Opinion creation. It also examines the emergence and construction of a Creole identity from the seventeenth century until immediately before the start of the independence movements, highlighting, through its publications, some prominent people, like Francisco Clavigero and Juan Pablo Viscardo. Finally, the author discusses the Peninsular and American journalism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, emphasizing the role it acquired in the period as a diffuser and catalyst of a new political language.