Movimientos literarios en América y la visión de la independencia / Literary movements in America and the vision for independence

Abstract

In the nineteenth century occurring struggles for independence of Latin American nations. For the realization of this libertarian company heroic actions were necessary, participation was demanded of dignitaries of the society and its leaders, thinkers and writers. This is why literature was a valuable intellectual weapon that fueled the aspirations and separatist ideology in the various countries of the American Continent. Were the storytellers, poets and playwrights and torchbearers of independence ideal who assumed the political, social and cultural vanguard in the towns of Spanish speaking in our American nations. The native Indian narrative, patriotic poetry and popular theater were three key aspects of literary creativity that gave means and brilliance to the nationalistic project of diverse populations of Hispanic America during the nineteen century. Aroused by Romanticism, Realism and Modernism three aesthetic currents of French decent, America’s Spanish-speaking nations developed their intellectual, moral, aesthetic and spiritual inclinations, while prohibiting the ideal of political independence under the name of libertarian dream and utopia. Hence the stimulatory role of literature, poetry, fiction, drama, journalism and oratory channeled in different scenarios and galleries , from the university classroom to the pulpit teaching in sacred temples, making the word the spiritual weapon in the fight and hope.