Keywords
biographies
experimental knowledges
discourses
national heroes
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Abstract
The general subject to which this article belongs is the biographic genre in Colombia along the late XIX y XX. The following hypothesis underlies this work: with the introduction of knowledges with biological basis, the way in which Man and its history were approached started to change considerably. Given this, the present article aims to explore how this change rebounded in the way biographies were written and understood. From the speech analysis of a particular case of study, we set out that since that period of time, biographies, rather than mere narrative and edifying texts, began to be established in more methodical and “scientific” terms. For developing the former hypothesis, the author worked on a collection of biographies, Colombianos Ilustres, edited by the Academia Nacional de Historia of Colombia and compiled by Rafael María Ortiz in five different volumes from 1916 to 1929.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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