O paradoxo da tradição pátria na escritura hispano-americana do século XIX: Francisco Bilbao e Justo Sierra

Abstract

This paper analyses some essays of the Francisco Bilbao Barquín’s Complete Literary Composition (Obras Completas) and some topics of the classic Justo Sierra’s production of Political evolution of the Mexican People (Evolución política del pueblo mexicano), due to the fact that the ideas about their respective nations should be observed as a whole and, therefore, comparatively. The Bilbao’s and Justo Sierra’s texts comprise “canonic readings”, which not only discuss with experiences that were witnessed since their countries’ independence in the first half of the 19 th century, but also projected a new scenery for America, from the so different framework experienced by their young nations.