The gentle yoke of Cervantes: Latinity, Hispanicity and linguistic sovereignty in Latin America

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Marcos Eymar

Abstract

Taking as a starting point the recent manifesto "In defense of linguistic sovereignty",
signed by dozens of Argentinean writers and scholars, this article evokes the debate on the
need of cultural and linguistic emancipation which took place after the independence of
the former Hispano-American colonies and shows how this debate influenced the
development of the concepts of Latinity and Hispanity since the end of the XIX century.
Departing from an antagonistic vision of the Spanish heritage versus cosmopolitism, the
figures of the Peruvian Ventura García Calderón and Jorge Luis Borges prove that the
appropriation of a foreign tradition – the French and the English, respectively – allow a
reappropriation of the Spanish tradition beyond the colonial dialectic.

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The gentle yoke of Cervantes: Latinity, Hispanicity and linguistic sovereignty in Latin America. (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 204-220. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4146