El mal y el héroe: representaciones de la sífilis oculta y pública en Belgrano y Bolívar

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  • Juan Carlos González Espitia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i25.16708

Palabras clave:

héroes de la independencia, sífilis, mito, enfermedad, Manuel Belgrano, Simón Bolívar

Resumen

This essay explores discourses of disease, specifically syphilis, linked to two defining figures of Latin American independence: Manuel Belgrano and Simón Bolívar. It examines the construction of discursive myths and their relation to political and societal shifts; the manner in which different representations of the disease serve as tools of mythification in the pursuit of cohesion-seeking narratives for their countries; and how mythification is continuously reshaped and at a constant risk of failure, particularly when the understanding of these diseases is adjusted as a result of scientific changes. It concludes by showing how the tension between extolment and debasement in terms of this venereal disease ultimately results in a further rooted mythical understanding of the two independence heroes.

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24-01-2021

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González Espitia, J. C. (2021). El mal y el héroe: representaciones de la sífilis oculta y pública en Belgrano y Bolívar. Revista Letral, (25), 121–139. https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i25.16708

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