The configuration of a Spanish American community in the work of Manuel Ugarte. Connections with the Spanish Generation of ‘98

Abstract

Manuel Ugarte converges with the Spanish authors of the Generation of '98 in the configuration of a common transnational space. The scope of the notion of a cracked block becomes more complex through possible connections with the set of Spanish intellectuals of the so-called Generation of ‘98. Lectures and books by the Argentine author are selected as sources and given the heterogeneity of Spanish Hispanic-American authors, part of the available works and articles by Miguel de Unamuno, Rafael Altamira and Ramiro de Maeztu are selected for the relevance of their contributions to the Americanist dimension of Hispanic-Americanism. The connection between the Argentinean and Spanish intellectuals, in terms of the configuration of a cultural space common to Spain and America, can be placed within the framework of the epoch of the centenary of the revolutions and of the situation of North American advance over Latin America.