El último de los canarios, by Agustín Millares Torres: imagination and silences of a founding Atlantic novel

Abstract

El último de los canarios (1875), by Agustín Millares Torres, traditionally classified as a romantic historical-sentimental novel, also offers a powerful allegorical-political reading that makes it a true founding Atlantic novel, linking Canarian literature with Spanish-American literature. The objective of this text is to discover some of the imaginations and silences that make this new reading possible, from a postcolonial perspective that tries to dignify a history and a culture, those of the Canary Islands, so often ignored and misunderstood, and that will allow us to elucidate what and how our author founds.