De Recuerdos de provincia a Conflicto y armonías de las razas en América: el retrato de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y la identidad de América

Authors

  • Mercedes Serna Arnaiz
Keywords: Nation, Race, Identity, Barbarity, Civilization

Abstract

By analysing two works by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Recuerdos de provincia and Conflicto y armonías de las razas en América, we trace the evolution of the author’s ideas over his lifetime. Sarmiento explores the same concepts in both his early and his later work – barbarity and civilization, race, inheritance and nation – but his position became far more radical under the influence of the scientism and positivism in vogue during the latter years of his life. In Recuerdos, Sarmiento contextualizes barbarity in the form of Rosas and his followers (despite his predeterminist conception of barbarity as an endemic evil that is inherent in the Earth) and believes that the model to follow is Europe; but in Conflicto he presents barbarity as a racial question, and the model that he proposes is now the United States.

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Serna Arnaiz, M. (2011). De Recuerdos de provincia a Conflicto y armonías de las razas en América: el retrato de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y la identidad de América. Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Hispanoamericana y Teoría de la Literatura, (16), 143–160. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/231211
Issue
No. 16 (2011): Domingo Faustino Sarmiento en su bicentenario (1811-2011)
Section
Artículos

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