Patologías deconstructivas: cuerpos enfermos y razón moderna en la literatura chilena del siglo XIX (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

The fi rst literary generation in the recently established Republic of Chile, made up of thinkers, essayists and authors such as Jose Victorino Lastarria, Andres Bello and Francisco Bilbao, persistently focused, in their literature, on the idea of their nation as an entity guided by reason. Nevertheless, Lastarria himself, in his short novel, Story of a Mad Woman, published in 1875, displays elements which create tension in the nationalistic discourse. It would appear, implicitly in the case of Lastarria’s female character, that this idea of nation brings on the individual a violence that he/she cannot bear, thus becoming sick and so, precisely because of that, losing all reason. My objective in this paper is to trace those criticisms that are directed against notions of modernity and modernization which provided impetus for the creation of the Republic after Independence, signifi ed in a series of texts starting from the second half of the 19th Century and represented in a body tha...

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