Abstract

SOLOGUREN, Ximena Soruco. La cultura según los escritores de la generación nacionalista boliviana (1900-1950): Carlos Medinaceli, Carlos Montenegro y Augusto Céspedes. CELEHIS [online]. 2022, n.44, pp.4-4. ISSN 2313-9463.

Summoned by the challenging demands of Historicism, Carlos Montenegro, Augusto Céspedes y Carlos Medinaceli, three foremost Bolivian intellectuals ascribed to the Nationalist Generation with a peak of activity in the 1930s-40s, construed the immediate past in such a way as to offer both a cogent social explanation to the military and diplomatic defeat in the Chaco War waged to Paraguay (1932-1935), and a wider survey and prospect of a national and popular culture being rather enhanced than hindered in the new South American context. They did so in a series both of programmatically argued texts and miscellaneous literary criticism and institutional interventions in the political, social and educational arena. Montenegro and Céspedes focused on the subservience to foreign and mostly European cultural models of urban elites co-opted by an export economical sector equated to big mining companies, being in this respect forerunners of MNR tenets. Medinaceli took as his own endeavor a chore alien to a cultural environment as the outlined by Montenegro and Céspedes, the profiling on a Bolivian literary canon and the detection of the main currents of a national literary history.

Keywords : Intellectuals; historicism; culture; nationalism; Bolivia..

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