Latin American Cultural Identity: The Heteroclita Look and The Claim of the Indigenous

Abstract

Two perspectives are presented that seek to define the conception of a Latin American cultural identity. The sustained in heteroclite colonialism and, the most current, of indigenous communities. Both have been registered since the nineteenth century as possible points of view for a recognition of being culturally identifiable by each of the fragments that make up the national states in Latin America. The reflection has the support of authors such as Mariano Picón Salas, José Carlos Mariátegui, Octavio Paz, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Augusto Roa Bastos, Arturo Uslar Pietri, John Beverley, and Romny Velásquez, among other cultural academics.