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ELBIRT, Ana Laura. Representations of the nation in the argentine essay. A critical reading to the pampean centrality. Latinoamérica [online]. 2017, n.65, pp.35-56. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2017.65.56909.

This article analyses the strategic role of the Argentinian essay in the building up of a national identity. The study encompasses three moments: the generation of 1837, the generation of 1880, and the Centenary of the Republic movement. It retrieves also the perspective of an “extra-centric” intellectual, Bernando Canal Feijóo, who criticizes the so-called national-themed essay, claiming that Argentinian literature is the expression of a single portion of the country: the coast, or the pampas. The author looks into Feijoo’s essay on the “regionalization” of cultural works, where he favours a complex and dynamic area, the Argentinian “northwest”.

Palabras llave : Essay; Nation; Argentina; Identity; Region.

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