Entre risas y llanto, la gestación del imaginario josefino costarricense
In this approach of Risas y llanto (1888), an introductory novel in Costa Rican literature, I analyze the creation of the national, urban imaginary from San José. Literature was linked to the political nationalism from which the identity project emerged, Manuel Argüellos novel portrays the bourgeois...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/23789 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/23789 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | novela costarricense nacionalismo estado-nación imaginario identidad excepcionalismo Costa Rican novel nationalism state-nation imaginary identity exceptionalism |
| Sumario: | In this approach of Risas y llanto (1888), an introductory novel in Costa Rican literature, I analyze the creation of the national, urban imaginary from San José. Literature was linked to the political nationalism from which the identity project emerged, Manuel Argüellos novel portrays the bourgeoisie's strategies to build the identity by eliminating multicultural perspectives with homogenous and racist ones. This imaginary, manipulated by Costa Rican politicians and intellectuals since the decade of 1880 until today, visualizes Costa Rica as a kind of Arcadian plain in which we are all white, equal, and peaceful; such as recreated in Argüello´s novel. |
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