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Representation of Charrúa Speech in Nineteenth-Century Uruguayan Literature

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Both Juan Zorrilla de San Martin and Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, from very different ideological camps, “attained the highest positions in Uruguay’s literary canon, with the ensuing operability of their discourses, the pub- lishing of new editions of their works, and their early incorporation into official school syllabi, etc.” (Rocca 2000: 245).1 In the late nineteenth century, these two literary figures contributed to found Uruguay’s idea of its national self.

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Coll, M. (2014). Representation of Charrúa Speech in Nineteenth-Century Uruguayan Literature. In: Callahan, L. (eds) Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340450_6

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