Latin American cultural developments. According Pedro Morandé

Abstract

This essay deals with the development of the invariants which make up the concept of Latin American culture according to Pedro Morandé, namely: baroque ethos, sacrifice (on account of the cultist blending of Catholicism and the American native and African religions) and miscegenation. It also includes the discussion of the national allegories present in his work: recovery of and reconciliation with original identity, magisterial allegory and the allegory of communion with a trascendent social praxis. Identification and discussion of the formal emplotment (romance), the argumentation (organicist and not essentialist or integralist) and the ideological implications (anarchist and not conservative) present at his writings.