Prensa y divulgación de la historia patria en Colombia: la obra de Pedro María Ibáñez en publicaciones literarias e ilustradas, 1882-1919

Abstract

In the Bogota of the mid-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, the literary and illustrated presswas a condition of possibility of the emergence and positioning of the so-called historia patria as legitimate knowledge. Thanks to these printed materials, men of letters had a space to disseminate works that, given their length and nature, di-ffered from the latest news found in the nascent political and informative press. Through the analysis of the historical work published by physician and historian Pedro María Ibáñez in the press, this paper argues that literate elites tried to shape a part of the public opinion, so that it transcended the partisan disputes resulting from a strong political pugnacity that turned into civil wars. The paper is the result of a systematic review of illustrated newspapers, literary and cultural journals of the time, as well as of an extensive contextual bibliography which allows addressing an unknown face of the process of crea-tion and dissemination of historical knowledge in Colombia.

Keywords

• illustrated press
• literary magazines
• pedro maría ibáñez
• historia patria
• historiography