Link to record in KARFollowing a series of lectures in Havana in 1957, José Lezama Lima published the essays in La expresión americana. From these essays we can arrive at a theory of history that is both epistemological, in that it concerns the interpretative process by which we understand history, and socially pragmatic, in that it elaborates a vision of history that leads to a sense of cultural identity. In establishing the historical platform upon which his theories are based, Lezama