He skillfully draws on chroniclers, novelists, and memoirs, as well as personal observation, to build a picture of criollo character. To do this, he examines the relationships of the individual to other individuals, to collective groups, to society, to the state, and to external factors. Julio Mafud attempts to determine the Argentine collective personality through a historical survey tracing the development of sixteen salient character traits.
He documents his argument from the Kinsey Report, whose relevance to Argentine society only independent investigation could determine. He dwells, for example, on sexual aberrations (a fetish which mars the work throughout) to prove middle-class Argentines frustrated, anxiety-ridden, and fearful.
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He sees this alliance crumbling during the Perón period, and concludes by prophesying a merger of the lumpenproletariat and the proletariat to force a society based on equality and full participation for all.Īlthough his observations on the manners and mores of Buenos Aires society reveal a sharp and observant mind, Sebrelli’s analysis is frequently supported by questionable evidence. Couching his analysis in Marxist terms, he postulates the existence of an unwritten alliance between the aristocracy and middle classes, the latter unwilling agents of the former, struggling to maintain social distance below and to close the gap above. Sebrelli seeks to describe the social and psychological characteristics of the aristocracy, the upper and lower middle classes, and the proletariat. Both support their analyses with historical documentation.
Juan José Sebrelli and Julio Mafud analyze contemporary Argentine society, each presenting an interpretation of the dominant factors in that society. The four books under review reflect this trend. Their attempts to discover the “why” and “how” of economic growth, social change, and societal development within a historical context has added a new and promising dimension to Latin American historiography. It describes different subject positions, positions configured around diverse rhetorics: a rhetoric of silence/silencing, a rhetoric of request and claim, and a rhetoric of deviation.Argentine scholars during the past fifteen years have increasingly sought to apply to the phenomena of Argentine history the analytical tools and hypotheses developed by sociologists, political scientists, and economists. The chapter refers to letter writing, a crucial discursive form with regard to women's writing this includes letters drafted for both the public sphere as well as the family sphere. It focuses on the rhetoric of the legal-notarial discourse, which can be found in reports, ordinances, petitions, and probanzas. The chapter highlights the analysis of the legal-inquisitorial discourse. It provides an overview of women cronistas in addition to some biographical information and proposes using the figure of the female cronista to reconsider other discursive forms and other traditions in which the importance of orality and family (in terms of narration and social bonds) takes center stage. This chapter reveals how women represent, write, speak, remember, and affirm themselves and make requests in the complex sphere of the early Latin American colonial world.
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