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Escritura privada y subjetividad pública en América Latina: Entre el diario político y el diario de autor (1895-2017) examines four Latin American diaries to explore how the diary functions as an artifact that synthesis heterogeneous temporalities while simultaneously allowing a specific authorial role through an auto-figurative technology across various contexts.
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the diaries of José Martí, José Juan Tablada, Lorenzo García Vega, and Ricardo Piglia, aiming to contribute interpretively to a cultural field where the diary is primarily understood in its testimonial aspect, viewed as a documentary source. Through systematic and typological analysis, this thesis will demonstrate that the diary in modern Latin American literature is not merely a narrative of an author's daily life, but also a way of reading and writing, utilizing the first person, and functioning as an artifact that enables a specific form of enunciation.
Given its intrinsic relationship with time, and situating diary writing within its historical context, this study seeks to reveal how Latin American diaries can be analyzed through various typologies to highlight the heterogeneity of an artifact that is often deemed "secondary," "marginal," and "circumstantial" in the field of Latin American literature. The corpus of diaries analyzed varies according to historical context, with chapters organized based on historical temporality and the dissertation's central argument: to examine the internal mechanisms of the diary within the frameworks of the diario político and diario de autor typologies, illustrating the constant transmutations of fragmentary writing marked by calendar days. Additionally, this dissertation will occasionally consider other textual forms by diary writers, such as essays, journalistic chronicles, novels, and short stories.