La periferia en la biblioteca de Occidente

In principle we could assume which works could be part of a hypothetical Western library, as the Borges’ Library of Babel. However, we may include a series of books excluded by its peripheral condition, as much geographical (like Hispanic America) as cultural. These works rarely appeared to be considered in the various canons of Hispanic literature which arose in the XVIIIth century, often by lack of awareness of their existence (with the exception of Menéndez Pelayo). The objective of the present article is to reflect on the criteria used through which the peripheral works have remained on the margins of that library and to propose an alternative canon in accordance with this condition, in so far as necessary reading of a common reality with its own peculiarities