Towards a Costa Rican Literary Historiography of The Colonial Period
Costa Rican literary historiography has been built from the convention that literature arises in the country from the second half of the 19th century. This article proposes a journey through the historical causes of such prejudice and through the disqualifying opinions of Costa Rican literary histor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | UCR |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43504 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/43504 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | literary historiography Central American literature colonial literature baroque literature Kingdom of Guatemala historiografía literaria literatura centroamericana literatura colonial literatura barroca reino de Guatemala |
| Summary: | Costa Rican literary historiography has been built from the convention that literature arises in the country from the second half of the 19th century. This article proposes a journey through the historical causes of such prejudice and through the disqualifying opinions of Costa Rican literary historians. It proposes the necessary foundation of a historiographical current that, from multidisciplinarity and from the exploration of little-known discursive genres, redefines the object of study of colonial literature. Finally, the necessary tasks for its constitution are postulated as a road map. |
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