Archipelago by Ricardo Rojas: A Rewriting of Tradition
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/2025e68360Abstract
In 1934, the Argentine writer Ricardo Rojas was confined in Ushuaia for his adherence to the Unión Cívica Radical party. During his stay, he wrote Archipiélago, a text that would be published in 1941 in La Nación and, a year later, in book format. The purpose of this article is to investigate how throughout Archipiélago the writer breaks away from his condition as a prisoner and approaches, instead, the travel stories about the Patagonian territory published in the Buenos Aires press of the time. Indeed, we will see how, based on an intense discussion with the representations of the region established by Darwin, Rojas joins the project of “Argentinizing” Patagonia and also renewing the foreignizing view that defined the narrative about the extreme south.
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