Historical Development in Latin America

Felipe Valencia Caicedo

A chapter in Roots of Underdevelopment, 2023, pp 1-32 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Some of the finest literary minds of the continent can help us approach the problem of historical persistence in Latin America. Mexican Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, quoted above, writes about a hidden present in our modern reality and how certain elements are invariable or have variations that are so small which make them imperceptible. William Faulkner went further in Requiem for a Nun stating that, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Though set in the US South, Faulkner’s mythical territory of Yoknapatawpha County resembles that of Garcia Marquez’s Macondo somewhere in tropical Latin America and Onetti’s Santa Maria, further south into the Andes. James Baldwin forcefully added that, “The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” The economic history of a region is, in essence, that one of its people.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38723-4_1

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