“Soldiers of the written word.” On politics and emotions in the early 1860s. El Argentino by José Hernández

Abstract

This work has as its main focus of inquiry the newspaper El Argentino de Paraná written by the poet José Hernández during the year 1863. Within the framework of the regrets and disappointments of the consequences of Pavón, it is of particular interest to examine the axis of his speech linked to his perception of the soldiers who intervened in that last event, but also that of the public writer and the political life of the beginning of that decade linked to the emergence of a series of emotions. For the figure of the soldier and the public writer, the notion of “transfer operation” is used, by which, following in the wake of Adolfo Prieto, one figure can be absorbed by the other in the context of the process of both of them through the action of one of them. The situation and the drift of the Entre Ríos press in relation to the provincial and national authorities are key to understanding its effectiveness.