El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

This essay analyzes the figure of the death of the child in La vida de Dominguito, by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in a double sense : on the one hand, in its relationship with language, as an event that symbolizes the coming to the word and, on the other, as a trauma that establishes a fundamental d...

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Main Author: Alejandra Josiowicz
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2014-12-01
Series:Cuadernos LIRICO
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/1775
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description This essay analyzes the figure of the death of the child in La vida de Dominguito, by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, in a double sense : on the one hand, in its relationship with language, as an event that symbolizes the coming to the word and, on the other, as a trauma that establishes a fundamental discontinuity in the father’s experience. It examines the emergence of childhood at three different levels : first, the child as remembered through autobiographical writing ; second, the child’s written word as incorporated to the text ; and last, the death of the child as a traumatic experience in its irreducible otherness. It concludes that such scene poses an ethical necessity to which the text seeks to respond.
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El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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childhood
writing
trauma
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title_full El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title_fullStr El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title_full_unstemmed El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title_short El despertar del padre : escritura e infancia en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
title_sort el despertar del padre escritura e infancia en domingo faustino sarmiento
topic childhood
writing
trauma
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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