The problem of native un Manuel González Prada

Abstract

The article analizes the phases of the indigenous culture by the Peruvian author Manuel González Prada, within the perspectives of discussion by wich the indigenous essay flows by the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in Latin America. Manuel González Prada, perhaps the most polished prose writer of the nineteenth century, finds the need of an amalgamated American free of the religious, artistic and intelectual yoke that was still outstanding in a culture that to him, was Hispanizing and foreign. In his indigenous texts collected in Páginas libres(1894) and Horas de lucha (1908) this sharp thinker shows the true problems of the Latin American Native in the construction of the Peruvian nationality and thus, the Latin America.