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The Brilliance of progress: People, nature and nation

Pages 343-354 | Published online: 19 Jan 2012
 

The earthquake that Chile suffered in February 2010 suspended the celebrations of the nation's bicentennary and diverted the energy of most Chileans into tasks of mourning and reconstruction. This article revisits Bernardo Subercaseaux's suggestion about the Centennary as a fractured spectacle, in order to trace a narrative that challenges the received wisdom of a Chile in which progress could flourish undeterred by the political passions experienced by the rest of Latin America. On balance, however, in 1910 just as in 2010, the liberal-romantic paradigm about the inevitablity of Chilean progress entails a large number of paradoxes.

Notes

 1 CitationBernardo Subercaseaux, Historia de las ideas en Chile. El centenario y las vanguardias, Santiago de Chile, Editorial Universitaria, 2004: 43.

 2 The three quotations are from Bernardo Subercaseaux, Historia de las ideas y de la cultura en Chile. El centenario y las vanguardias, Santiago de Chile, Editorial Universitaria, 2004: 49–53.

 3 Maximiliano Figueroa and Manuel Vicuña. El Chile del bicentenario, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2008.

 4 Citation Tiempo Argentino , Buenos Aires, 14th June 2010.

 5 Carmen McEvoy, op. cit.

 6 CitationÁlvaro Fernández Bravo, La invención de la nación. Lecturas de identidad de Herder a Homi Bhabha, Buenos Aires, Manantial, 200: 15–16.

 7 CitationBernardo Subercaseaux, ‘Las paradojas de la cultura. Un país que baila en la cuerda floja’ in Maximiliano Figueroa and Manuel Vicuña, El Chile del bicentenario, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2008: 151.

 8 CitationManuel Antonio Garretón, ‘Política y sociedad en Chile. Una mirada desde el bicentenario’ in Maximiliano Figueroa and Manuel Vicuña, El Chile del bicentenario, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2008: 263.

 9 See Julio Vallejos and Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate, ¿Chilenos todos? La construcción de la nación. 1810–1840, Santiago de Chile, Lom Ediciones, 2009: 325.

10 CitationGabriela Mistral, ‘Chile’ in Jaime Quezada, Pensando a Chile. Una tentativa contra lo imposible, Santiago de Chile, Presidencia de la República, 2004: 16.

11 CitationBenjamín Vicuña Mackenna, ‘Discurso de Inauguración’ in Covarrubias Álvaro, Informe Jeneral presentado a S. E. el Presidente de la República sobre los trabajos de la comisión directiva de la Exposición Nacional de Agricultura celebrada en Santiago de Chile en mayo de 1868, Valparaíso, Imprenta del Mercurio, 1869: 144–155.

12 See Ana María Contador, Los Pincheira: Un caso de bandidaje social, Chile 1817–1832, Santiago de Chile, Bravo y Allende editores, 1998.

13 Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Los Lisperguer y La Quintrala, Santiago de Chile, Sudamericana, 2001: 71.

14 Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, op. cit.: 82.

15 Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, op. cit.: 114.

16 Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, op. cit.: 10.

17 CitationLastarria gave his speech at the inauguration of the University of Chile and it was published with the title Investigaciones sobre la influencia social de la conquista i del sistema colonial de los españoles en Chile, Santiago de Chile, Imprenta del siglo, 1844.

18 Mistral, op. cit.

19 CitationGabriela Mistral, ‘Breve descripción de Chile’ in Jaime Quezada, Pensando a Chile. Una tentativa contra lo imposible, Santiago de Chile, Presidencia de la República, 2004: 33.

20 Bernardo Subercaseaux, ‘Las paradojas de la cultura. Un país que baila en la cuerda floja’ in Maximiliano Figueroa and Manuel Vicuña, El Chile del bicentenario, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2008: 153.

22 The full text of the first speech of president Piñera at the UN can be read here: http://www.elobservatodo.cl/admin/render/noticia/18323.

23 CitationBaldomero Lillo's ‘Quilapán’ is a story from Sub sole, and ‘El chiflón del diablo’ from Sub terra.

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