The National Contra-Epic Romance in Brenda and Minés by Eduardo Acevedo Díaz

• Main Author: Germán Antonio Pitta
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2017-12-01
• Series: Mitologías Hoy
• Subjects: eros; nación; cuerpo femenino; novela sentimental; voyeurismo
• Online Access: https://revistes.uab.cat/mitologias/article/view/465

<p class="Normal1">in the nineteenth-century Uruguayan narrative there is a whole variety of texts forgotten by the canon that propose a different approach to the national question. In this work, I am going to occupy a certain sector of the work of Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, given its importance in the development of the historical novel, but I will do it through two novels (Brenda and Minés). These novels write the patriotic body of the nation in a sentimental and erotic key. The nation is represented as an ambiguous and eroticized female body by a voyeuristic perspective. As it will be seen, voyeurism is the politics of the pose that defines the foundational writing. </p>