The poet, the journalist and the politician: Critical intervention of Ruben Dario, Enrique Guzman and Augusto C. Sandino (Spanish text, Nicaragua).
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My research focuses on certain intermediary genres that mark the onset of a local form of modernity in Central America. Although supplemental to the main literary corpus of the time, autobiographies, prefaces and chronicles, poetic and political manifestos---as well as the photographs that often accompanied them---serve especially well as a basis from which to analyze the functions and modes of the (self) representation of local intellectuals. Such genres are the textual manifestations through which individuals situate their encounters with their own time and space. Through an immanent analysis of what can be called textual porosities, or subordinate forms, I explore the correspondence between these forms and their historical moment and geographic space, tracing in particular the development of increasing intellectual specialization in Central American modernity.;Despite the specificity of my research, it offers an alternative method for interpreting forms that defy the standard definition of literature, such as the chronicles of Jose Marti and the writings of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Analyzing non-traditional literary forms implies participating in theoretical debates regarding form and content and subject/object binaries, of literature in Latin America. My perspective emphasizes the dynamic dialectic of form and content that determines the literary manifestations in relation to their constituting historical forces; not only in terms of the texts themselves, but also with respect to the social structures that they reproduce.