Abstract

MICHELETTI, María G. The construction of the argentine littoral at the end of nineteenth century. The Travel letters of Gabriel Carrasco. Folia [online]. 2016, n.25, pp.61-88. ISSN 0325-8238.

In 1888 the statistical Gabriel Carrasco, commissioned by the organization of the Census of Agriculture and Livestock of the Argentine Republic, toured through the provinces of Corrientes and Entre Ríos, the national territories of Chaco, Formosa and Misiones, and Paraguay. Soon after, he collected and published his impressions of the sites visited in a book entitled Travel Letters (Buenos Aires, Peuser, 1889). The epistolary genre was chosen by Carrasco to baste the data collected, geographical descriptions and historical references with his conceptions of Modernity, in a text in which the concerns of the present and the programmatic strength of future seem to impose themselves to the representations of the past. The aim of this paper is to investigate the idea of littoral region constructed by Carrasco through his Letters, trying to determine the main features that contribute to give identity and meaning to that imagined community.

Keywords : Gabriel Carrasco; argentine littoral; history and memory; argentine historiography.

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