Historia, identidad, mentira y ventroloquía: las problemáticas del otro y del conocimiento en El arpa y la sombra de Alejo Carpentier

Abstract

This study aims at questioning and dismantling of the concepts of history & identity in Alejo's Carpentier. El arpa y la sombra. The narration offers this possibility when such dichotomies as history / lies, identity / ventriloquy are interpreted as from a critical perspective. In fact, the dismantling of these dichotomies allows Carpentier to fathom a much more complex Columbus than the one mono-logically constructed and championed by the official literature.