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- Title
SOLEDAD ACOSTA DE SAMPER Y LUIS SEGUNDO DE SILVESTRE: RETÓRICA DE LA "LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE" Y PROCESOS DE SUBJETIVACIÓN EN EL CAMPO DE LA NOVELA COLOMBIANA DE LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO XIX.
- Authors
Marín Colorado, Paula Andrea
- Abstract
in this article, I will analyze the position-making of Soledad Acosta de Samper (Bogotá, 1833-1913) and Luis Segundo de Silvestre (Bogotá, 1838-1887) in their respective novels: Dolores (cuadros en la vida de una mujer) (1867) and Tránsito (1886). Both novels criticize the Colombian modernization project in the second half of the 19th century. According to this, I will try to prove that whereas the criticism from Acosta allows to understand the birth of a subject (feminine, in this case) and her intimacy, the criticism from Silvestre presents characters subjected to external conditions (race, gender). Despite this difference, both novels justify a nation project based on the superiority of the creoles' thought (white race, lettered, noble origin) over the "uncivilized people" (Silvestre) or over the civilized ones in a wrong way (Acosta). Thus, the mixed race as a nationalist utopia from the first half of the 19th century belongs to the past.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; COLOMBIAN authors; ACOSTA de Samper, Soledad; SILVESTRE, Luis Segundo de, 1838-1887; TRANSITO (Book); COLOMBIAN fiction; MODERNIZATION (Social science) in literature; UTOPIAS in literature
- Publication
Lingüística y Literatura, 2012, Issue 61, p255
- ISSN
0120-5587
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17533/udea.lyl.13353