Los dilemas políticos de la cultura letrada; (Argentina siglo XIX)
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2002. first edition. Paperback. 318p., biblio., notes. Near Fine in Wraps. Item #17355
ISBN: 9500514427
Pérez investigates, in the works of outstanding writers of the 19th century in Argentina, the most controversial notions of the intellectual history of the country, the value that was given to the ideas of race, territory, religion, gender, when thinking about the nation; sense of the American versus the European; the relationship between the intellectuals and the masses. It investigates the essay and the fiction of the writers of the Generation of '37 and the role of Rosas in mobilizing the political will of the national masses. Study the process of Europeanization of the narrative in "Amalia" by José Marmól and "Sin rumbo", by E. Cambaceres; the ideological change of the gaucho in "Martín Fierro", "Juan Moreira" and "Don Segundo Sombra"; the interpretation of social life in "Facundo", by Sarmiento; the implicit polemic between Sarmiento and Mansilla in "An Excursion to the Ranqueles Indians", the experience of the popular in the poetry of Almafuerte.
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