Casa de las Américas y la representación de la independencia latinoamericana y caribeña

Through the study of the Cuban institution Casa de las Américas and above all of the results achieved by its homonymous magazine in the last fifty three years, we will try to observe - through discourse analysise - how Latin-American independence was represented in Cuban discourse. Embracing the conceptual ideas of Simón Bolívar and principally of José Martí, Casa de las Américas focused, during the course of its history, on Latin-American and Caribbean independence, underlining that the final aim indipendence is not the object theorized by national elites at the beginning of the 19th century, but a complete emancipation recognizable in José Martí’s idea of Nuestra América.