Blockchain Papers

Eugenia Houvenaghel

espanolEstudiaremos en clave argumentativa la contribucion de Alfonso Reyes a la polemica acerca del “mexicanismo” o de la “espanolidad” de Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, debate que se inicia en pleno ambiente revolucionario mexicano. El aporte que el diplomatico nos brinda ofrece material para aproximarnos no solo a la evolucion del debate, sino tambien a la verdadera apuesta de la discusion a los ojos de Reyes. Para Reyes, el debate gira en torno al nivel cultural de la colonia en los siglos XVI y XVII y concierne las posibilidades de desarrollo de un espiritu americano en las primeras decadas que siguen a la hispanizacion del Nuevo Mundo. El ensayista aprovecha el debate para recalcar como las culturas de la metropoli y de la colonia se fomentan mutuamente desde el primer contacto. Rebatiendo el ambiente nacionalista en el que el debate se inicio, Reyes convierte el caso Alarcon en otra prueba mas del enriquecimiento cultural que trae el intercambio de doble sentido entre Espana y la Nueva Espana. EnglishFrom an argumentative perspective, we study the contribution of Alfonso Reyes to the polemic about the New Mexican or Spanish identity of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, a debate initiated in the nationalist ambiance of the Mexican Revolution. Reyes’ part in the discussion offers elements which enable us to reconsider the debate’s evolution, but also gives us the opportunity to examine the real stake of the polemic in Reyes’ eyes. For the essayist, much of the debate revolves around the cultural level of the colony in the 16th and 17th centuries and concerns the development of an American spirit in the first decades after the colonization of the New World. The essayist makes use of the discussion to emphasize the way in which the cultures of both metropolis and colony have cross-fertilized immediately after the first contact. Going against the nationalist atmosphere in which the debate had originally started, Reyes turns the case Alarcon into one more proof of the cultural enrichment that the two-way exchange between Spain and New Spain has engenderes.