INSTITUTO "DR. E.RAVIGNANI"   24160
INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA ARGENTINA Y AMERICANA "DR. EMILIO RAVIGNANI"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
La cultura visual del criollismo
Autor/es:
EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Seminario; Seminario de Investigación del proyecto UBACyT Representaciones de los sectores populares en las imágenes de la cultura de masas en Argentina (1930-1960); 2015
Resumen:
Seminario de Investigación del proyecto UBACyT ?Representaciones de los sectores populares en las imágenes de la cultura de masas en Argentina (1930-1960)?, dirigido por la Dra. Clara Kriger. CONFERENCISTA INVITADO: ?La cultura visual del criollismo?. Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 14 de mayo de 2015. This paper analyses a peculiar use of the criollista discourse among peronists between 1945 and 1955. In his classic study of that discourse, Adolfo Prieto argued that its remarkable expansion in the late 19th century was the consequence of three concurring reasons. The fading gaucho world was appealing (firstly) for the criollo lower classes, as an expression of nostalgia and of the anxieties brought about as part of the experience of modernization; (secondly) for the immigrants, as an easy way to feel part of the nation by identifying with a symbol of national authenticity and, (thirdly) for the elites, as a way to claim precedence by excluding the rebellious newcomers from the nation. It is the contention of this paper that, contrary to Prieto?s assumption, the criollista discourse continued to play a key role in Argentinean culture after the 1920s and well into the 1950s. This endurance is explained by the fact that it played a fourth function: criollismo continued to be attractive, at least in part, because it was one of the channels through which popular culture managed to allude to the ethnic heterogeneity of the Argentinean people (its non-white and mestizo components in particular), longtime denied by the dominant discourses of the nation. Although the ?official? peronist discourses did not openly challenge the idea of a white-European nation, criollismo was an arena in which it was subtly undermined.