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02 Karageorgou-Don Alvaro en El Limite Del Tiempo
02 Karageorgou-Don Alvaro en El Limite Del Tiempo
Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
Vanderbilt University
Resumen
Abstract
In this essay, I analyze the way in which the independence of the American vi-
ceroyalties affects the formation of concepts such as nation and nationality in
the context of the Iberian Peninsula. This political environment is the unstable
background that illuminates the animosity raised by the ethnic, social and racial
identity of the mestizo, in the society drawn by the Duke of Rivas in Don Alvaro o
la fuerza del sino. In 1835, the indiano is an uncomfortable reminder of those li-
mits within which citizenship is defined in the newly constituted nation-state.
Don Alvaro, emblem of the irreducible dialectics between loyalty and rebellion,
reveals the crisis underneath the discourses in charge of defining the new poli-
tical body of citizenship, whose task is to give birth to a modern nation from
the colonial ruin.
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Estar a caballo entre dos mundos hace del indiano un ser ame-
nazante, una entidad que agita inseguridades, y trae a la superficie
deseos turbios, envidia e ira, desde el primer momento de su apari-
ción. Según Gómez-Ferrer Morant, la literatura utilizó "el mito del
indiano, al tiempo que enmascaró y ocultó las escasas posibilidades
de promoción social que ofrecía la realidad española, sobre todo pa-
ra los grupos más necesitados" (25; cfr. también Simerka 74). En los
tiempos de Rivas, los rasgos del indiano no han cambiado mucho:
don Álvaro trae riquezas de América, es de linaje preclaro, pretende
a una noble, llega a tener problemas con la justicia por lances de
honor; pero a diferencia de otros indianos literarios fracasa de ma-
nera estruendosa en todos sus propósitos.
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they are persons or principles that (1) fall in the interstices of social struc-
ture, (2) are on its margins, or (3) occupy its lowest rungs [. . .] communitas
has an existential quality [...] Structure [...] has cognitive quality [...]
Communitas has also an aspect of potentiality; it is often in the subjunctive
mood. Relations between total beings are generative of symbols and meta-
phors and comparisons; art and religion are their product rather than legal
and political structures [. . .] Communitas breaks in through the interstices of struc-
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[. . .] Dios de bondades,
con penitencia austera,
lejos del mundo en estas soledades,
el furor expiaré de mis pasiones (Rivas 86).
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momentos de diálogo más intenso entre los contextos temporales en los que la
obra se mueve.
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Bibliografía
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