Octavio Méndez Pereira and panamanian foundational fiction

dc.creator	Peter Szok
dc.date	2002
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T16:28:45Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T16:28:45Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=12871404
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/84993
dc.description	Utilizing Sommer's concept of foundational fictions, this essay analyzes Octavio Méndez Pereira's novel Nuñez de Balboa (1934). The article argues that the novel became a vehicle of Panamanian nationalism, presenting the isthmus as an Hispanic, mestizo nation and as a country without ties to the Afro-Caribbean world. This vision arises principally from the book's main characters, Balboa and the indigenous princess Anayansi. Their romance projects the idea of a homogenous nation, contrasting sharply with the tumult of early twentieth-century, including the immigration of thousands of West Indians. Nuñez de Balboa illustrates the cultural strategies of Panama's elite and its desire to control the process of modernization.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad de Quintana Roo
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=128
dc.rights	Revista Mexicana del Caribe
dc.source	Revista Mexicana del Caribe (México) Num.14 Vol.VII
dc.subject	Estudios Culturales
dc.subject	Octavio Méndez Pereira
dc.subject	Foundational fiction
dc.subject	Panama
dc.subject	mestizo nation
dc.title	Octavio Méndez Pereira and panamanian foundational fiction
dc.type	artículo científico