The Fire of Patriotic Reading and Writing in the Historical and Sentimental Novel from Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia at the Second Half of the 19th Century
Abstract
This article studies the patriotic reading and writing as a narrative biotechnology which made possible the symbolic effacement of subaltern historical subjects like indians and afrodescendants during the second half of the nineteenth century. Through the analysis of three historical novels from Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, the figure of the letrado criollo is read as a subject of moral virtue committed to the process of independence, as a subject understanding of history and mediator to other social groups, and as a subject of anagnorisis or a personal revelation which illuminates his hidden identity and engraves it in the political stories of his time.
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Nineteenth Century, Historical Narrative, Andean Novels, Biotechnologies, Patriotic Reading, Peru, Ecuador, BoliviaReferences
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