Encounters and Disconnections in Nine Latin American Essayists

Abstract

In this work, the Jamaica Letter by Simón Bolívar; Our America by José Martí; The issue of races in Latin America, the unity of the Indo-Spanish America, Antimperialist perspective, Is there a Hispano-American thought? by José Carlos Mariátegui; The Cosmic Race by José Vasconcelos; The Masters and the Slaves by Gilberto Freyre; Cuban Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar by Fernando Ortiz; The Americas and Civilization by Darcy Ribeiro; Our America and the West by Roberto Fernández Retamar; and Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano will be analyzed with the intention of identifying the convergences and divergences in the approaches of these Latin Americanist authors.