Crisis Y Reemergencia: El Siglo XIX En La Ficci�n Contempor�nea de Argentina, Chile Y Uruguay (1980-2001)

By Veronica Garibotto

En las ?ltimas d?cadas-especialmente a partir de los noventa-ha habido una visible reemergencia del siglo XIX en la cultura del Cono Sur. Figuras decimon?nicas t?picas (indios, gauchos, letrados y cautivas) han reaparecido en la escena literaria de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. H?roes como San Mart?n y Artigas se han convertido en protagonistas principales de la literatura, el cine y el teatro. G?neros fundantes de la identidad nacional (el relato de viaje, la poes?a gauchesca, el romance nacional) se han reciclado y transformado. Textos can?nicos como La cautiva, el Mart?n Fierro y el Facundo han sido reescritos una vez m?s en diferentes campos art?sticos. Y controvertidos eventos hist?ricos (las guerras civiles, las masacres de las comunidades ind?genas) han sido revisados y vueltos a narrar. Combinando el an?lisis textual con una perspectiva m?s abarcadora anclada en la teor?a cultural, este libro responde a dos preguntas interrelacionadas: por qu? el siglo XIX ha resurgido de manera tan fuerte en las ?ltimas d?cadas? Cu?les son las implicaciones ideol?gicas de esta reemergencia?

A trav?s de una comparaci?n transnacional de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay, y de una lectura de la ficci?n producida por figuras prominentes en los tres pa?ses (activistas pol?ticos, intelectuales p?blicos y autores can?nicos), Crisis y reemergencia contribuye a dilucidar c?mo el campo cultural del Cono Sur ha cambiado desde los noventa: c?mo la ?tica intelectual, las identidades nacionales y las estrategias discursivas que fueron funcionales a la consolidaci?n del liberalismo en el siglo XIX han sido reformuladas, transformadas y repensadas en las ?ltimas d?cadas. Apoy?ndose en el marxismo cultural, el an?lisis del discurso y la teor?a poscolonial, el libro apunta a una triple contribuci?n: definir los componentes ideol?gicos y discursivos que est?n en el coraz?n del siglo XIX, mostrar su continuidad hasta los noventa (y aclarar as? las conexiones entre liberalismo y neo-liberalismo) y exponer su reciente transformaci?nuna transformaci?n que abri? el camino a lo que se ha llamado el "retorno de lo pol?tico" en la regi?n.

In the last decades-and especially since the 1990s-there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Mart?n and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Mart?n Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational nineteenth-century genres (travel narratives, gauchesque poems, and national romances) are being transformed and recycled. Controversial nineteenth-century events (the civil wars, the massacre of indigenous communities) are being revisited and explored. Through a combination of close textual analysis and a broader perspective rooted in cultural theory, this book answers two interrelated questions: Why did the nineteenth century resurface so strongly in the last decades? What are the ideological implications of this reemergence?

Based on a transnational comparison of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, and a survey of narratives that were mostly produced by well-known figures (political activists, public intellectuals, and canonical authors), Crisis y reemergencia helps to elucidate how the Southern Cone cultural field has changed since the 1990s: how intellectuals' ethics, national identities, and discursive strategies that were functional to the consolidation of liberalism in the nineteenth century have been challenged, transformed, and rethought in the last decades. Borrowing from cultural Marxism, discourse analysis, and postcolonial theory, the book pursues a triple contribution: to define the discursive and ideological components that were at the core of the nineteenth century, to show their continuity up to the 1990s (and thus clarify the connections between liberalism and neoliberalism), and to expose their recent transformation-a transformation that paved the way for the "return of the political" to the region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 1557537151
• ISBN13: 9781557537157
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"