“Vigencia de la Imagen de Calibán en el Pensamiento Latinoamericano”

Abstract

From a literary analogy in the work the tempest of Shakespeare with its personage the Calibán is able to explain the Dialectic of the Conquest. The image of the Indian exposed from the dark side: “the one of the savage evil”. A vision that will open the doors for the criticism and investigation of Anthropophagy in Oswald de Andrade. To do this, it is necessary to understand the historical context, to know “Where Calibán comes from”, based on the expeditions made by Christopher Columbus to America, in the union of his journey with Sevillano Álvarez Chanca, which narrates his American experience, with an admiration that surpasses Scientific rigor, being one of the first testimonies of Cannibalism; Where the Indian is taken as a savage and an undisputed Caliban. In “From the Caribbean to the Amazon and the Rockies” events are told that demonstrate the imbalance and loss of sanity that transform epistemic frames of our time: “the parameters of analysis take a turn and allow to present the wild as historically constructed”. Interculturality and anthropophagy an affinity that makes it possible to “deconstruct” the false identity of the subject in favor of the successful formation of the Latin American Identity.