Darwin, una historia de Malvinas

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

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Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.

Como en el resto de las sociedades europeas, el siglo XX español fue profundamente trágico y convulso. Comienza con las consecuencias de la derrota ante Estados Unidos en 1898 y la pérdida de los restos del imperio colonial. Ello puso de relieve la fragilidad del sistema político y llevó a un replanteamiento intelectual de la identidad nacional y de los valores sociales. En estrecha coincidencia con ello, se produjeron ecos de la «revolución intelectual» finisecular, sobre todo a través de los escritores noventayochistas. Esta crisis implicó la decadencia de las ideologías...