Writings of The Self in The Space of The Other: Travel Stories of Costa Rican Writers at The End of The XIX Century
This article investigates the travelogueswritten by Costa Rican authors who left the country at the end of the 19th century. It seeks to determine what are the foundational texts of the so-called "odeporeic" or travel literature in Costa Rica. As background, it considers the official repor...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2019 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositório: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/39105 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/39105 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Costa Rican literature Costa Rican chroniclers travelogues Costa Rican travelers nineteenth century travel Literatura costarricense cronistas costarricenses relatos de viaje viajeros costarricenses viajes siglo XIX |
| Resumo: | This article investigates the travelogueswritten by Costa Rican authors who left the country at the end of the 19th century. It seeks to determine what are the foundational texts of the so-called "odeporeic" or travel literature in Costa Rica. As background, it considers the official reports that were sent from Nicaragua in the context of the war against the filibusters. In 1858, the writer Manuel Argüello Mora publishes a chronicle about a trip through this neighboring country. Nicaragua will also be the reference for a book published by Pío Víquez in 1887, where an official tour of the Costa Rican government is described. This border country is the immediate reference of these inaugural chronicles due to the recent war waged in this territory and the constitution of a national epic. The second part analyses the stories about the trips through Europe, mainly the texts that Argüello Mora will publish in the newspapers of the time. For the analysis of this corpus a semiotic methodology is used, which starts from the textual explanation and refers to the historical-cultural references. This paper proves that the literary genre "odeporic" was cultivated in Costa Rica parallel to the emergence of "national literature", a fact that took place at the end of the 19th century. |
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