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- Title
Nación y narración: las perspectivas geográfica, cultural y economics en la narrativa decimonónica venezolana.
- Authors
Ruiz, Bladimír
- Abstract
This article analyzes how the 19th century national novels of Venezuela represent the conflicts associated with the implementation of the liberal model in a country dominated by forces that tie it to systems belonging to a colonial past that needs to be erased. The author contends that the 19th century Venezuelan novel goes beyond the representation of territorial spaces typical of the novel of manners and the "nativist" tendency, involving itself in the nationalist discussions related to the need for modernization and incorporation of the new nation into the international order. In order to achieve this, it was not enough for the new Venezuelan nation to clearly define its territories and allocate funds to those territories in the context of the liberal ideology of progress. It also needed to create a literature to construct the imaginary of a nation which would consolidate territorial spaces, create traditions, honor national heroes (the founding fathers), and discuss who belonged to the nation and who did not. In other words, the access to progress and modernization needed to be narrativized.
- Subjects
VENEZUELAN literature; VENEZUELAN fiction; NATIVISM in literature; NATIONALISM in literature; SOCIAL criticism in literature; LITERATURE &; history
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 25, p152
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Literary Criticism