A reprodução do Mapa Invertido da América do Sul nas visões críticas sobre o Sul global

Abstract

The "Inverted Map of South America" (1943) is a different map. Firstly, because it was not created by the canons of cartographic science, but by the hands of a Uruguayan artist, called Torres-García. Secondly, because it did not use the conventional orientation to the North, but reversed the South s position to the top of the image. This paper was motivated by the different worldview this artistic map displays, where the purpose is to understand the different contexts that reproduce this map, contributing to its prominence until latterly. In order to do so it is necessary to understand the meanings, questions and ideologies expressed in this inversion, since they contribute to the recognition with this art construction to times beyond its formulation. In this sense, the research was based on a literature survey of schools of thought that propose a critical view to the historical formation process of the global South, notably postcolonialism and the postdevelopment. Such theoretical subsidies help to understand a map that is as plural as worldviews may be, treading a relationship between geopolitics, cartography and art