Abstract

LOPEZ LOPERA, Liliana María. Figurations of Homeland: Fatherland, Nation, Republic. Co-herencia [online]. 2014, vol.11, n.21, pp.97-140. ISSN 1794-5887.

This article looks for an answer to the question about the specificity of the bond that the concept of nation expresses. In order to achieve this goal, the texts of the so-called first voices of nationalism in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as recent studies about the notion of nation, fatherland and republic, are analyzed. The article takes a look at the four characteristics of the concept of nation, namely, its polysemic and controversial character, its modern and artificial dimension, and its political nature. It analyzes the ways in which nationalist products are presented. It also answers the question of how such imagined fictions, invented or created, establish strong bonds between the people and the nation. It concludes with an allusion to the Colombian case in order to show that in Colombia, the concepts of nation and fatherland are inseparable from the republican language, on one hand, and that the idea of nation that emerges is that of a tragic and melancholic nation, on the other.

Keywords : Nation; fatherland; republic; civil war; Colombia; XIX century.

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