Dolores, enfermedades y metáforas poéticas del cuerpo en Alejandro de Humboldt

Oliver Lubrich

doi:10.3989/revindias.2004.i231.424

Dolores, enfermedades y metáforas poéticas del cuerpo en Alejandro de Humboldt

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Oliver Lubrich Universidad Libre de Berlín

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2004.i231.424

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Alexander von Humboldt, America, travel literature, body, epistemology, aesthetics

Abstract

Alexander von Humboldt’s account of his American voyage (1799-1804) functionalises the body in the colonies. The traveller’s body endures strains, pains, dangers, diseases, selfexperimentation and drugs; experiences that are compensated by therapeutical effects and assuaged by acclimatisation. America is imagined to be a body which, at first glance, appears destined for rape, while the text subtly codes it as a candidate for emancipation. The indigenous bodies seem to be ‘strange’, yet a series of transcultural performances subverts the difference between European and American physicality. Over the course of the voyage, Humboldt’s colonial poetics of the body are altered.

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2004-08-30

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Lubrich, O. (2004). Dolores, enfermedades y metáforas poéticas del cuerpo en Alejandro de Humboldt. Revista De Indias, 64(231), 503–528. https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2004.i231.424

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Vol. 64 No. 231 (2004)

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