Geography and the Enlightenment
Patriotic Views of the Port City of Havana, 1761–1791
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18980773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mariselle Meléndez (0000-0002-3232-0549, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-151 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25222/larr.257 |
| OpenAlex | W2794640410 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article focuses on how two Spanish American Creole writers perceived their port city as a symbol of national prestige, devoted patriotism, and utilitarian significance, at a time when the military and economic status of the port was undergoing transformational changes. It centers on the works of two eighteenth-century Cuban writers, José Martín Félix de Arrate’s Llave del Nuevo Mundo, antemural de las Indias Occidentales: La Habana descripta (1761) and Ignacio José de Urrutia y Montoya’s Teatro histórico, jurídico y político-militar de la Isla Fernandina de Cuba y principalmente de su capital La Habana (1791), to show the ways in which these authors articulated their love for their country while endowing the port and the port city with local political power and cultural prestige. This sense of “topophilia,” a concept described by geographer Yi-Fu Tuan as the “affective bond between people and place,” is what guided the aforementioned authors’ geographic view of the port
Ancient history · Art · Capital (architecture) · Cartography · Enlightenment · Geographer · Geography · Humanities · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Port (circuit theory) · Power (physics) · Prestige · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Cuban History and Society · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |