El amor a la patria y a la tribu: las retóricas de la memoria incómoda

Attention is directed to moral attitudes and emotions generated by national anthems and by a certain category of Indianist poetry, with commentary being made on a selection of texts from the perspective of an aesthetic of reception. Patriotic anthems and tribal verses constitute rhetorics which construct differentiated amorous sentiments. However, notwithstanding the specificity of different forms of expression, anthems and poems elaborate the love for imaginary communities as an instrument for concealing or disguising emotional ambiguity of the contemporary individual in the face of collectiv...