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Professional and scientific activity regarding the "History of Spain in America" during the Franco dictatorship were both carried out in oblivion of the existence of a colonial past understood as a process of domination that determined the effective appropriation of the material culture of former Spanish colonies in the Americas and their subsequent preservation and exhibition In the mother country's most important museums. This article analyzes how the Museum of America (1941) crystalized a sense of mutual belonging between Latin America and Spain, with which historians and anthropologists would dialogue for a long time, providing concrete evidence of its existence through the exhibition of material objects originating In a supposedly "harmonious mixture" of "natives" and "Spaniards," but which ignores the conflictive dimension of the Inter-ethnic relations established between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the development of an idea: American continental unity as an object of study in Latin American intellectual history of the twentieth century. To achieve this, the article is organized in three stages: the idealist, which starts with José Enrique Rodó; the confrontation between Pan-Americanism and Americanism, which rises from the opposition against imperialism and the revindication of mixed heritages (mestizaje); and the confrontation between policies to implement development and revindicate continental unity driven by the Cuban Revolution. The paper emphasizes that gray area that emerges today, marked by an open questioning of national unity as a paradigm; in other words, the paper sets forth a question regarding the political and intellectual relevance of a topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay I propose that the Girardian distinction between "mensonge romantique" and "vérité romanesque" may engender a new interpretation of the Latin American culture. In order to unfold this possibility, I will begin with a discussion of the Girardian concepts of "mensonge romantique", "vérité romanesque" and "interdividuality". I will then propose the concept of "poetics of emulation" as a strategy of Latin American cultural history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]