El letrado patriota y el exilio: comunicación epistolar entre Servando Teresa de Mier, Andrés Bello y José Blanco White

Abstract

This article analyzes the epistolary dialogue that the Creole man of letters Servando Teresa de Mier had between 1811 and 1813 with the enlightened liberal José Blanco White and the Caracas man of letters Andrés Bello. We seek to show the controversies and connections that these intellectuals maintained since their epistolary exchange with the aim of reflecting on the figure of the “patriot man of letters” as Myers understands it, linked to a conflictive rearrangement in the face of an adverse political-social context (Halperín Donghi “El letrado colonial” ; Altamirano, “Introducción”). Our objective is to analyze the concept of patriotism as a complex and elastic concept (Lomné, “El feliz momento de la patria”) that enabled a productive dialogue between transatlantic and transnational communities and men of letters (Simal, “El exilio”).