El Terruño, the Plow, and the Gaucho’s Transcendence: A Study of a Uruguayan Cultural Magazine (1917-1950)

This article delves into the Uruguayan magazine El Terruño, which commenced publication in 1917 and ran uninterruptedly until 1950. Positioning itself as a «countryside magazine». it filled the void left by the Creole newspaper El Fogón. Drawing upon an analysis of 128 issues, the article explores the magazine’s editorial team, editorial stances, and connections to the country’s socioeconomic transformations. By examining its various sections, the article discusses the publication’s relationship with party politics and the process of establishing the gaucho as a symbol of Uruguay. Rather than focusing solely on the most prominent pages of El Terruño, the article provides a comprehensive reading of each issue to highlight the dialectic between its components and its integration into the publishing market. As an unexplored magazine by specialized critics, the article references its writers, corroborates the publication’s relevance in the first half of the 20th century, and problematizes the relationship between «post-gauchoism» and modernization. This allows us to appreciate that the prevailing discourses about the gaucho not only contained laudatory and consecrating meanings but were also laden with tensions regarding their symbolic character for Uruguayan society.

• Fecha de publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/13947
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/article/view/14852; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/13947
• Palabra clave: El Terruño; revistas culturales; Uruguay; gaucho; El Terruño; cultural magazines; Uruguay; gaucho; El Terruño; revues culturelles; Uruguay; gaucho
• License: Derechos de autor 2024 Matias Emiliano Casas