The American imaginary scheme in the literature of the Canary Islands

Authors

  • Ramón Díaz Hernández
  • Josefina Domínguez Mujica

Keywords:

literary texts, Canary writers, American landscape, Atlantic identity

Abstract

The literary texts which contain socio-spatial references are an important channel of geographic knowledge. We use them to discover the links between the Canary literature and the American landscape and culture. The nexus of a shared history and the culturing of the landscape conscience support a research designed to reveal the geographic interest of the texts of the Canarian writers. The literature of the Islands gives us pages of unquestionable value which allow the recreation of the role of the American landscape and culture in the collective imaginary scheme and in the forging of the Atlantic identity. Without these elements it will be impossible to interpret the geography and history of the Canary Islands.