Memoria gráfica de la Guerra de Cubala historia visual y la revista "La Ilustración Española y Americana"

Zusammenfassung

The official Spanish press of the end of the 19th century, at the same time it covered the Spanish-Cuban conflict, it proclaimed the government�s propaganda defending that Cuba or Puerto Rico were examples of colonial territories where modernity was possible. Despite this goal, the journalists could not avoid being carried away by the exoticism of the Caribbean and offered a picturesque view of it, which was in fact the prevalent one among the people in peninsular Spain. This contradictory view implied a double distortion, since the Spanish government was trying to introduce the islands in the innovative trends of the continent. In order to carry out this analysis, the journal La Ilustración Española y Americana, the most important publication of the period, will be particularly useful.