Beyond Clausewitz: Creole Reasons for War

Abstract

This paper tackles the reading of a text that tells, from a certain perspective, made the Conquest of the Desert. The text in question is Conquest of the Pampas, a work that glorifies the event of conquest, but exposes a tension with the military and state institutions who led the military action. This tension is manifested in the construction of a narrator who resisted the war as a soldier and heard stories of their peers, they are put into writing and thus form a collective memory or file in tension with the official military archive. The text expresses criticism of the hierarchy of the army, while the army made a defense based on certain values in the exaltation of some prominent figures and troops as a whole. In this tension, the writing of these stories is formed.

Keywords

• narrativa expedicionaria
• conquista del desierto
• relatos de frontera.