Summary Of "The Indolent Latino" By Ignacio Martín-Baró - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author. THE INDOLENT LATINOIDEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN FATALISM1. The fatalistic syndrome1.1. The Latin American torporThe author begins by recalling the novels of Gabriel García Márquez. In them there is a very widespread READING CONVENTION that refers to the CHARACTER OF LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETIES. Martín-Baró affirms that although the image of Latin America that appears there is a literary fiction, it is still marked by important elements of reality.
The most important of these elements of the Latin American reality is the idea that these peoples live something like a "forced siesta". LATIN AMERICANS are SUBJECTS SUBJECTED BY PROCESSES MANAGED BY OTHERS, by factors totally external to their will. This state is experienced in a SEMI-CONSCIOUSNESS that is expressed from time to time through PREDICTABLE OUTBREAKS OR SURPRISES. This situation gives an APPARENT HISTORICAL STAGING in which the events are perceived as something unchangeable; they are the same in the past, in the present and will be in the future.