Rewriting history and the new puertorican foundational novel

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the colonial discourses of power and the construction of Caribbean identity and, by extension, Latin American identity. This study argues that power discourses and their ideologies shaped identity through histories and literature’s manipulation and distortion. The article focuses on the dynamics of historiography and some of the Caribbean identity’s anomalies and fragmentations. Being a psychological novel, La renuncia del héroe Baltasar allow us to analyze the changes that power discourses exert on identity and auto-perception.