Abstract

ORTIZ, Alexis. Between Centuries and Movements: Gregorio Torres Quintero and La Vaquera. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2023, n.26, pp.332-367.  Epub June 26, 2023. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i26.425.

This work explores and analyzes La Vaquera, by Gregorio Torres Quintero, considered a novel of late Romanticism. This work, rescued from oblivion and published for the first time in 2018 thanks to the efforts of researchers at the University of Colima, engages in dialogue with Mexican historiography of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Likewise, the novel harbors a myriad of philosophical and literary currents ranging from French Romanticism to the tensions and schisms caused by the modernizing and nationalist projects of the Mexican State and its literate elites. This article addresses the historical and literary relevance of La Vaquera, as well as its relationship with the Romantic school and its approach to transcendental themes in the history of the country, such as education, modernity, and progress. It sets out to achieve the above through critical dialogue with previous studies by Wolfgang Vogt (1997), as well as Terríquez and his colleagues (2018). The essay concludes by updating assumptions established by those authors around the novel with respect to Romanticism and modernity as foundational stones of the work. In opposition to what Terríquez and his colleagues suggest, it is pointed out that La Vaquera is a novel that resorts to procedures, tropes, and ideas of German Romanticism in order to separate itself from French aesthetics and its literary, cultural, and political baggage.

Keywords : Colima; nineteenth century; Romanticism; modernity.

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