Continuidades, cortes y agenciamientos : los primeros sucesores de Bartolomé Hidalgo, o un universo expandido de palabras gauchas

Abstract

Although gaucho genre genealogy has made the Hidalgo-Ascasubi-Del Campo-Hernández series the sequence of transmission of an aesthetic resource that is transformed into the passage from one authorship to the other, in the 1820s there are texts whose authorship remains in anonymity and they have not attracted the attention of the critics, but, nevertheless, are the first that retake central points of the poetics of Hidalgo. We have called this increase in the gaucho genre corpus an expanded universe. This universe unfolds between 1823 and 1825 and constitutes a gap in the history of criticism of the gaucho genre as the texts that comprise it have been read only exceptionally and, in those cases, only as archival finds, but not as texts that deserve to be included in the studies of the gaucho genre. This work tries to fill that gap through a reading focused on the texts.