Sarmiento frente a España. Visiones de una Argentina romántica en el mundo

Abstract

"This paper examines the complex relationship between mid-19th century Hispanic American culture and Europe by looking at one of the salient sentiments in Domingo F. Sarmiento’s Viajes (1845-1847): his antihispanism. Specifically, it focuses on the sections on France and Spain, where Sarmiento’s work significantly eschews the style of “travel impressions”. In those sections, Romantic orientalism allows Sarmiento to both inscribe the minority status of Río de la Plata’s culture and language politically, and to position himself in the larger context of European culture. This rhetorical maneuver enables Sarmiento to revisit and reconfigure notions of local color, exotism and orientalism he had explored in Facundo (1845)."