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HERNANDEZ RAMIREZ, Azucena. Literature and politics in the writing of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera during the consolidation of the Porfiriato. Lit. mex [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.1, pp.25-55. ISSN 2448-8216.

In this article I analyze a number of chronicles by modernist author Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859-1895) as a highly ideologized discursive space in which literature and politics are articulated. I want to prove that Gutiérrez Nájera's journalistic work is still linked to a romantic political function, prior to the autonomy of writing, in which the writer puts his pen to the service of forming citizens. In this case, the modernist chronicle (which function and form is very close to the romantic essay) serves as a disciplinary device, no longer legitimated by the process of nation construction, but authorized by the process of end-of-century modernization and the consolidation of the State, thereby continuing the effort of forming citizenships according to the modernizing project of the Mexico of that era.

Palabras llave : Modernism; Chronicle; Porfirio's Dictatorship; Journalism; Romanticism; Positivism.

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