Fundaciones. Beatriz Sarlo en el siglo XIX

Abstract

is essay systematizes Beatriz Sarlo’s nineteenth-century Argentinean literature approaches, which are part of a broader critical project focused on the twentieth century, particularly on the rst decades, that she has extended at least to the present century. e central hypothesis is that Sarlo’s insistence on examining the founding moment of Argentinean literature and the work and gure of writers such as Sarmiento and Echeverría is due to her intention to nd a rst modernizing moment before the cultural modernity she observes in her classic work Una modernidadperiférica. Buenos Aires 1920 y 1930 (1988). Furthermore, the essay aims to explore Sarlo’s initial study about Juan María Gutiérrez in relation to a literary history narrated from a modern perspective but also concerning her position as a critic.