Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and National Literature: Between Pedagogical Ambition and the Return to Eroticism

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Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle
Instituto Iberoamericano Berlín

In this article I will discuss the relation between love, nation and pedagogical writing in the novels and some literary critique of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. While in the majority of his novels, love and nation are connected in an intimate way, and form national allegories, in the later texts and especially in the fragments Antonia, Beatriz, and Atenea, we realize the comeback of eroticism which questions the image of (re-)productive erotic relations and, at the same time, the function of pedagogical writing as an instrument of a civilizing education of the masses.

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Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexico, Patriotism, 19th Century, National Allegory

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Schmidt-Welle, Friedhelm. “Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and National Literature: Between Pedagogical Ambition and the Return to Eroticism”. Mitologías hoy, 2018, vol.VOL 18, pp. 13-27, https://raco.cat/index.php/mitologias/article/view/348275.
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