Travel, ideological perspective and national project in "páginas de mi diario durante tres años de viaje 1853-1854-1855" de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the ideological perspective that is articulated in “Páginas de mi diario durante tres años de viaje 1853-1854-1855” by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, mainly in relation to the role of agriculture and European migration in the construction of a national project that develops through his travel experiences. For this purpose, we examine how Vicuña Mackenna constructs this national project by drawing from various sources of modern and colonial sociopolitical thought that were developing in both Spanish America and Europe.