INSTITUTO "DR. E.RAVIGNANI"   24160
INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA ARGENTINA Y AMERICANA "DR. EMILIO RAVIGNANI"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
"The Great War and the crisis of the European cultural paradigm in Latin America. An approach from war correspondents' experiences'
Autor/es:
MARÍA INÉS TATO
Lugar:
Budapest
Reunión:
Congreso; Fifth European Congress on World and Global History; 2017
Institución organizadora:
Corvinus University / Central European University
Resumen:
After the wars of independence, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Western Europe continued exerting a decisive cultural leadership on Latin America, remaining as the main reference for the elites, which adopted France as their new beacon. This fact would determine their attitude towards the Great War, favouring their alignment with the Allied cause through the appeal to Pan-Latinism. Nevertheless, the conflict also seemed to presage the collapse of European civilization, leading to the reappraisal of Latin American potentialities and laying the foundations of other pan-national identities.This paper will deal with the representations of this cultural crisis through the lens of two Argentine war correspondents, who operated as cultural mediators between both sides of the Atlantic.