Ricardo Rojas: An Argentine Modernity

Authors

  • Pablo Martínez Gramuglia Universidad de Buenos Aires Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v.n6.23224

Keywords:

national identity, historiography, Argentine cultural history, Centennial of the Emancipation

Abstract

In this essay, we analyze a key literary historiographic work, "La literature argentina", by Ricardo Rojas, from the perspective of intellectual history. In it, we seek to determine the ideological coordinates in which Rojas inscribes his effort to study a national literary system while virtually creating it. Based on the general directions of his thought (nationalism, evolutionism, positivism, romantic historicism, liberalism), we focus particularly on his idea of modernity as the object of our study. This idea of modernity refers to a particular period of Argentine history as well as to the autonomization of different discursive spheres, among which literature is only one of them. In this sense of autonomization, modernity has been a part of Argentine culture since its very beginningg. On the other hand, Argentine culture is understood by Rojas as an amalgamation of different contributions -American indian, original settlers (criollos), immigrants-, whose providential nature is yet to be determined. Modernity thus, is but a prior state in the evolution towards it.

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Author Biography

  • Pablo Martínez Gramuglia, Universidad de Buenos Aires Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

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Published

2009-12-01

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Section

Studies

How to Cite

Ricardo Rojas: An Argentine Modernity. (2009). Anuario Del Centro De Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti, 6, 313-354. https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v.n6.23224