Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaThe image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats
During the second half of 19th century and the beggining of the 20th century a set of ideas which would reach unpredictable repercussions started to acquire importance in Latin America. We refer to nationalisms. They spread over Latin American countries in relation with different variables such as p...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
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| description | During the second half of 19th century and the beggining of the 20th century a set of ideas which would reach unpredictable repercussions started to acquire importance in Latin America. We refer to nationalisms. They spread over Latin American countries in relation with different variables such as political and social changes or international situation, which gave many opportunities to express hostility against the foreign or different.
The mentors of nationalisms were engaged in the construction of a nation. For that purpose it was necessary, among other things, to make clear that even if they all were Latin Americans they didn’t share the same characteristics.
With regard to that issue, this article proposes to analyze a representative sample of diplomatic writings which were produced in the Southern Cone. We consider them as a modality of political discourse as well as an efficient instrument of the construction of a particular image of the other.
Although these writings constituted the expression of a group of public officials who addressed their message to a limited addressee, such as the chancelleries of their countries, who enunciated these discourses were also journalists, men of letters or intellectuals who spread their ideas to wider social sectors. In that way, they facilitated the appropriation and permanence of these discourses in other social sectors of national societies. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO293932022-03-16T19:07:55Z The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats La imagen de América Latina según la percepción de los diplomáticos del Cono Sur Otero, Delia del Pilar América Latina Cono Sur Nacionalismos Discurso diplomático Imágenes Latin America Southern Cone nationalisms diplomatic discourse images During the second half of 19th century and the beggining of the 20th century a set of ideas which would reach unpredictable repercussions started to acquire importance in Latin America. We refer to nationalisms. They spread over Latin American countries in relation with different variables such as political and social changes or international situation, which gave many opportunities to express hostility against the foreign or different. The mentors of nationalisms were engaged in the construction of a nation. For that purpose it was necessary, among other things, to make clear that even if they all were Latin Americans they didn’t share the same characteristics. With regard to that issue, this article proposes to analyze a representative sample of diplomatic writings which were produced in the Southern Cone. We consider them as a modality of political discourse as well as an efficient instrument of the construction of a particular image of the other. Although these writings constituted the expression of a group of public officials who addressed their message to a limited addressee, such as the chancelleries of their countries, who enunciated these discourses were also journalists, men of letters or intellectuals who spread their ideas to wider social sectors. In that way, they facilitated the appropriation and permanence of these discourses in other social sectors of national societies. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y principios del XX comenzaba a cobrar importancia en América Latina un conjunto de ideas que alcanzaría repercusiones imprevisibles, nos referimos a los nacionalismos. Éstos se expandieron en función de variables tales como los cambios sociales y políticos, así como la situación internacional, que proporcionaba muchas oportunidades de expresar hostilidad contra el extraño o diferente. Sus mentores estaban comprometidos con la construcción de una nación y para ello era necesario, entre otras cosas, poner en claro que si bien todos éramos latinoamericanos, eso no significaba que tuviésemos demasiadas características en común. Al respecto, el presente estudio se propone analizar una muestra representativa de escritos diplomáticos producidos en el ámbito del Cono Sur, considerándolos como una modalidad del discurso político y como un instrumento eficiente para la construcción de una particular imagen del otro. Si bien, éstos constituyen la expresión de un grupo de funcionarios públicos que dirigían su mensaje a un destinatario acotado, como eran las cancillerías de sus países; quienes los enunciaban fueron también periodistas, hombres deletras o intelectuales, que difundieron sus ideas a sectores más amplios, facilitando la apropiación y perdurabilidad de este discurso en otros sectores de las sociedades nacionales. 2006-12-01 2022-03-16T19:07:55Z 2022-03-16T19:07:55Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9929 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/29393 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9929/10606 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9929/31174 Derechos de autor 2014 Cuadernos de historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf text/html Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad; Núm. 8 (2006); 73-87 2422-7544 1514-5816 |
| spellingShingle | América Latina Cono Sur Nacionalismos Discurso diplomático Imágenes Latin America Southern Cone nationalisms diplomatic discourse images Otero, Delia del Pilar The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title | The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title_full | The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title_fullStr | The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title_full_unstemmed | The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title_short | The image of Latin America as perceived by Southern Cone diplomats |
| title_sort | image of latin america as perceived by southern cone diplomats |
| topic | América Latina Cono Sur Nacionalismos Discurso diplomático Imágenes Latin America Southern Cone nationalisms diplomatic discourse images |
| url | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9929 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/29393 |