Abstract

SAMACA, Gabriel. Press and dissemination of historia patria in Colombia: the work of Pedro María Ibáñez in literary and illustrated publications, 1882-1919. Co-herencia [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.31, pp.323-355. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.16.31.10.

In the Bogota of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the literary and illustrated press was a condition of possibility of the emergence and positioning of the so-called historia patria as legitimate knowledge. Thanks to these printed materials, men of letters had a space to disseminate works that, given their length and nature, differed from the latest news found in the nascent political and informative press. Through the analysis of the historical work published by physician and historian Pedro María Ibáñez in the press, this paper argues that literate elites tried to shape a part of the public opinion, so that it transcended the partisan disputes resulting from a strong political pugnacity that turned into civil wars. The paper is the result of a systematic review of illustrated newspapers, literary and cultural journals of the time, as well as of an extensive contextual bibliography which allows addressing an unknown face of the process of creation and dissemination of historical knowledge in Colombia.

Keywords : Illustrated press; literary magazines; Pedro María Ibáñez; historia patria; historiography.

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