Festivities, the building of the national state and the re-signification of the public sphere in Chile: Norte Chico, 1800-1840
Authors
Milton Godoy Orellana
Doctor en Historia, investigador asociado en el Instituto de Estudios Internacionales INTE de la Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique. Docente Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano
The article focuses on the study of the universe resignification festive and public space in traffic late colonial space to the configuration of the national state. We analyze the party as an instrument of propaganda and ideological dissemination of the nation through the example raised in the Norte Chico region, specifically in the celebrations dedicated to the patron saint of Copiapo and LaSerena, in addition to the arrival at the port of Coquimbo and transfer La Serena in an image of Fernando VII, to compare with the redefinition of public space by the national state, in the context of the Declaration of Independence in the region. For this purpose, we analyze the solution of continuity in the colonial and republican party paraphernalia, few recognize the breaks caused in the public space at the beginning of the nineteenth century, confronting the festivities of the previous period due to the necessary representation new symbols of power for early identification Republican popular.
Godoy Orellana, M. (2012). Festivities, the building of the national state and the re-signification of the public sphere in Chile: Norte Chico, 1800-1840. Cuadernos De Historia, (37), Pág. 51–73. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl./index.php/CDH/article/view/29973
