Abstract

CORMICK, Silvina. From a Latin American anti-imperialism leader to a “demodé figurehead”: a rereading of  Manuel Ugarte´s marginal status in the thirties. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2013, vol.15, n.1, pp.49-63. ISSN 1851-9490.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the process of increasing marginalization experienced by the figure of Manuel Ugarte (1875-1951) during the 1930s’. Until then, and since his irruption into public life by the end of the Nineteenth Century, his intellectual figure had played a key role in the Latin American political and cultural scenarios by virtue, on the one side, of his presence in literary societies belonging to the Latin American modernism. On the other side, as a corollary to the Latin-Americanist and anti-imperialist campaigns initiated by the beginning of the Twentieth Century which turned his figure, during the 1920s’, into an undisputed reference of the imperialism stimulated by the intellectuals and Latin-American youths of that time. However, within the following decade, Ugarte’s public recognition experienced a steady decline that matched his increasing isolation from the Latin American political and cultural scenarios. His figure was to be revived, at a later stage, from such isolation, by a sector within the local left as an early figure of the “national socialism”.

Keywords : Manuel Ugarte; Marginalization; Latinoamericanism; Antiimperialism.

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