Independence in Three Andean Novels: Mientras llega el día, La tragedia del Generalísimo y Bolívar. Delirio y epopeya
The author examines three novels that read History through new approaches and suggest another sense of the heroic. La tragedia del Generalísimo, by Denzil Romero, evokes Francisco de Miranda, a highly educated criollo, theorist of the Independence process. Riera emphasizes the hero’s godly features,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/925 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/925 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Nueva novela histórica Historia Colombia Venezuela Ecuador Independencia Simón Bolívar Francisco de Miranda mestizo New historical novel History Independence |
| Sumario: | The author examines three novels that read History through new approaches and suggest another sense of the heroic. La tragedia del Generalísimo, by Denzil Romero, evokes Francisco de Miranda, a highly educated criollo, theorist of the Independence process. Riera emphasizes the hero’s godly features, his doubts, eccentricities, and his transition from supporting realism to the defense of the Spanish American cause. Mientras llega el día, by Juan Valdano, sees Independence from a counterhegemonic point of view. Riera points out the concept that the events of 1810, in Quito, were not a demonstration of criollo nationalism but of the presence of a heterogenous social-cultural collective, the mestizos, which were trying to overcome long-standing injustice. Bolívar. Delirio y epopeya, biography by Víctor Paz, deals with myth without denying historical sources. The author analyzes sanitydelusion and lucidity-madness as traits that would define Bolívar, and the idea of emancipationas a wish for land ownership, granted through birth but denied by blood heritage. Therefore, Bolívar wouldn’t be the sole protagonist, even though he may remain as a cultural paradigm able to legitimize current assumptions of Anticolonialism. |
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