Joaquim Norberto de Sousa Silva and Juan María Gutiérrez: political and literary criticism in Brazil and Argentina in the beginning of the 19th-century

Abstract

This comparative study explores the similarities and differences between the early 19th-century romantic movements in Brazil and Argentina. It focuses on the role these different political contexts exerted on their literate communities in this period. Therefore, the comparison will be made taking into consideration the works of two main literary critics of the first two thirds of the nineteenth century in each country – Joaquim Norberto de Sousa e Silva and Juan Maria Gutierrez – and their relations with their governments, as a way to offer an explanation for the different developments these literatures had in the period.