El recreo de las familias en la legitimación de la práctica literaria mexicana en 1838

Abstract

The literary magazine El recreo de las familias hasn’t been studied enough and it deserves to go deeper because of the role it plays in the legitimation of Mexican literary practice in 1838, in a time when the consummation of the independence of the nation was near and the writers were defining their practice to make a difference with his colonial past. The present article analyzes how this magazine works as a vehicle of legitimation of the literary practice for the writers that colabored in it and how they used it to put his practice at the same level of the literature of the civilized countries, proving they had left  their barbarian past behind. Their identity as writers was not defined in an open, critic confrontation with the writers of those that they considered civilized nations, rather finding in them intellectual models worthy of being replicated to take of them adecuate elements for their individual and collective dynamic, but above all in a process of appropriation of the foreign literature in which the process of copy and translation played a key role.