In an age in which fears about the future predominate (in the form
of dystopias, ecological catastrophes and terrifying Sci-Fi
scenarios), utopia is reappearing as the bearer of hope for the
fate of humanity. Latin America has historically been a fertile
ground where utopian projects, movements and experiments could take
root and thrive, and this constitutes one of the regions major
contributions to world history. Each of the thirteen authors who
participate to this collective volume address a particular case or
specific aspect of Latin American utopianism from colonial times to
the present day. The relationship between utopia and America Latin
America in particular has been a constant throughout the ages and
helps to clarify both the concept of Utopia and of Latin America.
The one cannot be understood without the other, from the book of
Thomas More in 1516 to the present. Myths and legends of utopian
content already proliferated at the time of the voyages of
exploration, spurring on the conquistadors, while the knowledge gap
about lands awaiting discovery was filled with stories about
utopias. The America that the Spanish and Portuguese discovered
became, from the sixteenth century onwards, a space in which it was
possible to imagine the widest variety of forms of human
coexistence. Utopias in Latin America reconsiders the sense and
understanding of utopias in various historical frames: the
discovery of indigenous cultures and their natural environments;
the foundation of new towns and cities in a vast colonial territory
considered as empty space in which it was possible to start afresh;
the experimental communities of nineteenth-century utopian
socialists and European exiled intellectuals; and the innovative
formulae that attempts to get beyond twentieth-century capitalism.
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