The Tradition of the Edge

Abstract

This essay attempts to review some approaches to the discourse of Latin American and Caribbean identity in the intellectual history of the region that did not start from the affirmation or denial of the anthropological or ideological keys of Latin Americanism. In authors such as the Dominican Max Henríquez Ureña, the Cuban Lydia Cabrera, the Brazilian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and the Cuban José Lezama Lima, the text attempts to explore discursive strategies that sought a dissolution of identity borders through Pan-Africanism, Latinity or an Americanism that shunned the hegemonies of meaning in the intellectual debates of the Cold War.