"El matadero" of Esteban Echeverría. Discursive Tensions on the Road to Latin American Literary Emancipation

Abstract

The nineteenth century Hispanic is an excellent field of view of the processes that lead to its formation to modern literature. In societies where everything was done and where at the same time the literate elites know what targets should be pursued in the future, the literature of this period reflects the contradictions typical of a long transition where his role in the social attitudes still assumes civilizing waiting to reach the desired currency. El matadero of Esteban Echeverría, is perhaps one of the works of this period that best reflect these tensions, not so much as to their content, but especially in their own writing strategies.