Waldo Frank, Prophet of Hispanic Regeneration

Ogorzaly's analysis moves from Virgin Spain (1926), the book that posed Spain as an example for the New World (thus guaranteeing Frank a hearing in Latin America), to Cuba: Prophetic Island (1961), which saw Castro's revolution as the beginning of the realization of Frank's prophecy of hemispheric unity. The present work exposes the teleological nature of Frank's message. Emphasizing the preeminence of Latin American spirituality vis-a-vis the materialism of the U.S., Frank's conclusions were based on Latin American self-evaluations.