Pedro Henríquez Ureña y las tradiciones intelectuales caribeñas

Abstract

Educated in the learned tradition of the Dominican Republic and lover of British Hellenism, Pedro Henríquez Ureña was reponsible for the elaboration of the modern concept of Hispano-American culture. He was always committed to familiar and national memory, as well as to great continuities established by his intellectual parents, who founded a utopia of constant search in the legacy of submerged currents. Three points of view are superimposed in his work: the national Dominican tradition, exile as a condition of the modern intellectual and the close identification between culture and order that sustains his work. Mixed with these three concepts are matters of race, nation and citizenship, matters that were a part of the Carribean cultural controversies and of the contradictions of this Dominican intellectual.