The writings of José Enrique Rodó in the journal Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales, sketch of a literary history

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Elisângela da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/36086
• topic: José Enrique Rodó; Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales; History of literary criticism; Hispanic-American Social Thought; Americanism; Pensamento Social Hispano-Americano; José Enrique Rodó; Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales; História da crítica literária; Pensamento Social Hispano-Americano; Americanismo; Pensamento Social Hispano-Americano

In this article I discuss the texts written by the Uruguayan thinker José Enrique Rodó, published in the National Journal of Literature and Social Sciences - Revista Nacional de Literatura y Ciencias Sociales (1895-1897), an end-of-century Uruguayan periodic journal that played a unique role in the process of intellectual sociability in Latin America. My hypothesis is that his writings offered tools for the history of the literature produced after the political emancipation, at a moment marked by ideological fragmentation, in which he set as a great challenge to find a position between the hegemony of European literature - especially that of French origin - and the need for elaboration of an authentic continental literature. In this sense, by mapping Rodó’s sequential publications, it is possible to perceive them as defining lines of a knowledge about HispanicAmerican literature, which forged an analytical system interested in the consolidation of a knowledge that included intellectual history, HispanicAmerican social thought and society.