Una Epica Relevante: la Cultura Legal Argentina y las Escenas Judiciales del Martín Fierro
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i20p438-459Keywords:
Argentine literature, Gauchos, Law, Justice, 19th CenturyAbstract
This article looks at the ways 19th-century Argentine literature articulates the relationship between the country’s inhabitants and the State and the law. It interrogates the ways in which Argentine literature represented and intervened in what Lawrence Friedman has called “legal culture”: the ensemble of a society’s opinions, expectations and attitudes regarding the law. Through a study of judicial scenes in Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1872, 1879) in which State notions of criminality and of justice are disputed, I argue that the text fixes a position of literature on the law and State justice that displaces the symbolic place of criminality in society, and establishes a site of enunciation specific to Argentine literature that continues to operate into the present.
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