El héroe, el viaje y la construcción de las identidades sociales. Las minas del rey Salomón como modelo

Abstract

The purpose of the following pages is to better understand how social identities are constructed and how these constructions influence citizenship. For this, I will analyze a type of hero that emerged in England throughout the nineteenth century: the one related to travel and exploration. He is a hero who assumes a thousand-year-old tradition and develops it in a certain direction. Its purpose is to reinforce an idea of the world that serves the interests of the social groups that create or mold that heroic figure and that, through it, aspire to that image of the world becomes dominant, permeating all social sectors. After pointing out some of the most outstanding travel modalities of the nineteenth century, I will turn to a work of fiction, King Solomon's Mines (1885), to demonstrate how the literature of evasion is able to synthesize a whole set of political, economic and political interests. social groups of a specific social group and expand them to the whole of society.