Argentinos de profesión. El debate nativista en torno a la poesía gauchesca

Abstract

Before the definitive canonization of gauchesca poetry around Argentina's 100th anniversary in 1910, the second generation of nativist writers, who began publishing in the mid- 1890s, had already initiated the revaluation of this genre. In contrast to the first generation of nativist writers, these new Argentine authors, led by Martiniano Leguizamón, exalted gauchesca poetry as a strategy to legitimize their negotiations with urban and popular cultural expressions and, at the same time, to draw a line before these emerging forms of Argentine mass cultural production.