Questionner l’identité par le roman historique

Abstract

William Ospina’s Amazon trilogy (Ursúa, El país de la canela and La serpiente sin ojos) recounts Pedro de Ursúa’s Conquest and two expeditions to the Amazon rainforest. In this article, we analyze the use of the nominal syntagm los indios to understand how William Ospina, when describing the indigenous people of New Granada, takes hold of history to present, in his trilogy, his own version and interpretation of the historical narrative, in a constant quest for Colombian identity.

Keywords

• Colombia
• indigenous
• historical novel
• Conquest