Cualquier cosa menos huérfanos. El moderno pensamiento fundacional de/sobre Canaria

Zusammenfassung

«Anything but Orphans. The Modern Foundational Thought about Canary Islands». In this brief essay I will try to determine why one of the major disquisitions about the remote past of the Canary Islands has centered its attention on demonstrating a certain degree of familiarity between this enclave and the ancient mythology preceding the European expansion across the Atlantic Ocean. Gathering the synchronic contents and various production contexts of the most relevant thinkers who talked about its ancient history, I will try to shape a theoretical current which has been dedicated to clarifying its origins and so, for this reason, it will be referred to in the following pages as its modern founding thoughts. Throughout the analysis of the thoughts sustained by its most outstanding authors, and after a brief review of the ancient sources that inspired it, I will attempt to sustain a sociological explanation about such profound effort to unravel its lineage. In other words, my purpose in this article is to approach the stale image that still survives by means of an unconventional formula: investigating the different discourses that marked the complicated exercise of writing its history.