"Martín Caparrós, Ñamérica"

Starting from a series of chronicles that Martín Caparrós published in El País Semanal, and also in Página/30, Viva, Veintitrés, New York Times and chachara.or, some very recently others over the past years, Ñamérica turns into a broad study on the identity(es) of a continent that has an idiom with a single letter, the ñ, which is a sound, present in other romance languages where two letters are needed to express it. Start- ing from this premise, Caparrós uses distinct narrative forms — the chronicle, the essay, the periodical genre, the historical investigation — to deconstruct the history of a territory composed only of the Spanish speaking countries called America