Abstract

IBARRA CIFUENTES, Patricio  and  VELIZ ROJAS, Claudio. The writings of Daniel Riquelme as Chilean correspondent in the War of the Pacific (1880-1881). Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2021, vol.19, n.35, pp.741-757.  Epub Dec 02, 2021. ISSN 1900-6586.  https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.793.

Daniel Riquelme's dispatches for Santiago de Chile's El Heraldo during the campaign to Lima in the War of the Pacific (1880-1881) represent the work of one of the most important correspondents of that conflict, who would later become a reference for Chilean literature in the first half of the twentieth century. This article analyzes these writings based on what Gaston Bouthoul defines as ethnological aspects: the transformation of the social imaginary during the conflicts and its tendency towards a patriotic rhetorical Manichaeism. It examines the characterizations of the exalted behavior of Chilean soldiers and the despised Peruvian] otherness, as well as the deployment of nationalist rhetoric during the conflict aligned with the interests of the Chilean State.

Keywords : Chile; international conflict; journalism; national stereotype; war correspondent.

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