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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to highlight the role of poetry as an essential element in the project of independence, both as an instrument responsible for the creation of the new emancipated reality, on one hand, and of a concept of nation based on a republican notion of such, on the other. It reviews La victoria de Junín. Canto a Bolívar, by José Joaquín de Olmedo, and Alocución a la poesía. Fragmentos de un poema titulado "América" y La agricultura de la zona tórnda, by Andrés Bello. The review focuses on these poems, since they are considered essential for the configuration of the American peoplés concept of nation. The hypothesis of the text is that as a consequence of the lack of an own concept, poetry is essential for its figurative function, and that the illustrious poets of the emancipation process are the ones who make up for the lack of a common and own past around which the nation as an imagined community could be built.

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Title
La nación a pesar de las formas: Una construcción poética de la república*/Nation in Spite of Forms: A Poetic Construction of the Republic
Author
Sierra, Sebastián Londoño
Pages
141-167
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Jul-Dec 2014
Publisher
UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT
ISSN
17945887
e-ISSN
25391208
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1640569629
Copyright
Copyright UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT Jul-Dec 2014