2015
Marcos Eymar, « El suave yugo de Cervantes : Latinidad, hispanidad y soberanía lingüística en Hispanoamérica », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.on1ju2
Taking as a starting point the recent manifesto "In defense of linguistic sovereignty", signed by dozens of Argentinean writers and scholars, this article evokes the debate on the need of cultural and linguistic emancipation which took place after the independence of the former Hispano-American colonies and shows how this debate influenced the development of the concepts of Latinity and Hispanity since the end of the XIX century. Departing from an antagonistic vision of the Spanish heritage versus cosmopolitism, the figures of the Peruvian Ventura García Calderón and Jorge Luis Borges prove that the appropriation of a foreign tradition – the French and the English, respectively – allow a reappropriation of the Spanish tradition beyond the colonial dialectic.