Kettős kötés: Latin-Amerika reprezentációi angol, francia illetve portugál és spanyol enciklopédiákban
Double Bonds: therepresentations of Latin-America in English, French, Portugese and Spanish encyclopaedias

Summary/Abstract: Vera Várhegyi’s article entitled Double Bonds analyses the techniques of representation of Latin America in encyclopaedias edited in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. There were two reasons for choosing encyclopaedias: they appeared as the collection of canonised notions and they represent a genre created by the Enlightenment, a movement that initiated the construction of regional otherness in Europe. Várhegyi shows that at the end of the sixties a special, double representation of Latin America appeared in the English and French encyclopaedias. This representation consists in two steps: making Latin America alien and, within it, emphasising the alienness of the colonising nations: Spain and Portugal. As a counter-representation, the Spanish and Portuguese encyclopaedias praise the colonisers and further alienate the „natives of Latin-America”.

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