Idealized Campesinos

Question 1

Costumbrismo: The focus and larger goal of this writing style

Answer 1

A style of writing the depicts everyday rural life. It detail their lives and made it seem beautiful and made urban people aware.. The larger goal was to create a national identity and merge rural and urban

Question 2

What traits and types of people did the post-Independence writers focus on, and why?

Answer 2

They wanted to create positive feelings; Positive Association saying National Identity is much stronger than race and social status. They focused on rural people as a form of national identity bc they saw the city as corrupt from European Imperialism.

Question 3

Jorge Issacs, Maria, Colombia, 1867

Answer 3

Portrayed slaves as happy people through Paternalism. Retained racial hierarchy by saying everyone likes slaves and calling woman submissive, affectionate and happy. In these texts, everyone is dancing together in happiness. It also portrays slave identity as an important contributor to national identity and shows slavery as a good thing

Question 4

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, El Zarco, Mexico

Answer 4

Reversing how charters have been traced. Holding up racial blending

Question 5

Euclides da Cunha, The Backlands, Brazil, 1902

Answer 5

He celebrates the indigenous race, a HUGE PART of national identity! He recognizes their survival, holds up physical strength and challenges racial blending

Question 6

Ciro Alegria, Wide and Alien is the World, Peru, 1941

Answer 6

Holding up indigenous people, Peruvian, for self-governance