En la voz del gaucho : sobre la figura del indio en la gauchesca de Bartolomé Hidalgo

Abstract

The representation of the indio in the gauchesca has had, for the most part, negative connotations. However, in some cases this has not been the case. Bartolomé Hidalgo's work shows, in the midst of emancipatory and revolutionary candor, a positive view of that subjectivity. But, this semantic content of the poems is limited by the realization of the gauchesca artifice itself, which eludes any possibility of a voice for the indio. This work seeks to be a first step in a reconstruction of the appearances of the indio in the patriotic literary genre. Reconstruction that is guided by a hypothesis: if the gaucho achieved the cultural preponderance that he has in the symbolic scaffolding of the Argentine nation, the gauchesca must have had a role in that process beyond the influence of Martín Fierro and his subsequent canonization. Hidalgo, while emerging that consolidates the genre, also gave his part to the figure of that very national tradition.