Influence of Nietzsche on Latin American Literature

The project of finding a nexus between Nietzsche's thought and Latin American literature produced from 1900 to 1950 cannot be undertaken without reference to Nietzsche's philosophy of history, for, as Echevarria points out (43), the history of America--more exactly the history of Europe in America and by extension the manner in which history was made in America starting with Columbus's discovery--is one of the central subjects of all subsequent historical discourse.

The first half of the twentieth century is a useful period to examine in this regard because at this time Latin American identity per se was, as a matter of history, coming into its own. The Spanish-American War of 1898, which ceded Caribbean territory to the United States and after which Cuba obtained independence from Spain, completed the work of revolutionary turmoil that had swept through Ce

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about social structure that is intended to reconstruct archaeology. Myriad details of the social structure, including categories and the vicissitudes of its present and its emergence through history, constitute what Foucault refers to as genealogy, comprising indices of structure that must be critically reinterpreted and reevaluated, which is to say specifically not in the terms of the received wisdom, ideology, or presumptive facts of a culture: It is not a matter of locating everything on one level, that of the event . . . The problem is at once to distinguish among events . . . and to reconstitute the lines along which they are connected and engender one another. From this follows a refusal of analyses couched in terms of the symbolic . . . and a recourse to analyses in terms of the genealogy of relations of force . . . relations of power, not relations of meaning (Foucault, Power 114). What is monumental or antiquarian for Nietzsche is therefore symbolic for Foucault, hence subject to critique: "Where the soul [of cultural ideology] pretends unification or the self fabricates a coherent identity, the genealogist sets out to study . . . a profusion of lost events" (Foucault, Language 145-6), to expose and discredit the "emp
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