The Gaucho

Nichols, Madaliné W.

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“…Payadas were held, and the newspaper La Prensa noted at least one sorrowful occasion when five hundred potential customers battled the police in hot fury because not even standing room was left in the theater where one such payada was to take place. 41 These imitations and reenactments were surely laden with studied artifice. Yet they nevertheless manifested ritually the high value placed on gaucho traditions and the desire of Italians to become creolized.…”

Section: Porque Esos Apolitanosmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Juan Moreira became so popular that publishing houses hired professional "poets" to render the tale into verse for a market that would support repeated editions. 17 The story's dramatization was of even greater consequence because it played a central role in defining the circo criollo (creole circus) and fostering an Argentine national theater. 18 Most important for this study, the dramatization of Moreira created the context for the birth of the Cocoliche character.…”

Section: The Birth Of Cocoliche the Dramatic Personamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cocoliche: The Art of Assimilation and Dissimulation Among Italians and Argentines

Cara-Walker

1987

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Cocoliche, that curious dramatic character improvised under the circus tent during the last decades of the nineteenth century, is no longer a vital aspect of Argentine life today. Yet his caricatured presence over a period of fifty years proved critical in the creolization of Italians and natives as well as in the sociocultural redefinition of Argentina's “national character.” Creolization (the cultural redefinition negotiated by two or more diverse groups coming into contact—in this case, Italians and Argentines) yields a new ethic and aesthetic order wherein the presence of each group becomes integral to the national whole. As will be shown, Cocoliche became a key vehicle for this process of creolization.

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Section: Porque Esos Apolitanosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Birth Of Cocoliche the Dramatic Personamentioning

confidence: 99%