Mexican Literature
Printed rendition ISSN 0188-2546
Lit. mex vol.23 no.2 Mexico nov. 2012
Studies and notes
Country, gathering and visual advancements in the excursion
to Veracruz of Manuel Payno
Country, Collecting and Visual Technologies in Manuel
Payno's Journey to Veracruz
Edgar Mejia
Fortune College
Rundown
The account "An excursion to Veracruz in the winter of
1843" (1844) of Manuel Payno is considered here with regards to developing
political precariousness by the regional question with the United States,
however particularly with regards to the rise of a culture Visual that advanced
not just the generation of pictures (lithographs, dioramas, displays,
cosmoramas), yet additionally of the organizations committed to its show
(magazines, historical centers, all inclusive presentations). I inspect the
path in which the narrative uses certain focal analogies in the nineteenth
century, from optical advancements, the historical center and gathering, to
propose itself as a store of pictures around which the national venture is to
be composed.
Watchwords: travel writing, visual advancements, historical
center, gathering, country.
Unique
This article inspects the travel account "A trek to
Veracruz in the winter of 1843" (1844) by Manuel Payno with regards to
becoming political strains between the United States and Mexico for regional
debate. Likewise I examine the route in which the record arranges the part of
composing opposite the rise of another visual culture that advanced pictures
(ie lithographs, dioramas, displays), as well as the foundations gave to their presentation
(ie Magazines, historical centers, world's fairs). I contend that by displaying
itself following a few focal nineteenth-century foundations and practices, for
example, the gallery, visual advancements, and gathering, the content turns
into a figurative storehouse of pictures which are expected to give the
structure to the country building process.
Catchphrases : travel composing, visual advancements,
gallery, gathering, country.
In Memories of My Times (1853), Guillermo Prieto makes a
representation of Manuel Payno, his companion and nearest intelligent
conversationalist, while the last lived in the place of the distributer Ignacio
Cumplido, for whom he worked amid the 1840s:
Lived with Mr. Cumplido, and wrote in the pieces he had
bound for, in which there were in vogue dolls, actualizes of rider, weapons and
books, balms and mixers, without missing, obviously, a top of Newton, Socrates,
a block of Pompeii, or a goat with two heads or a squirrel with five feet (cit.
In Treviño: 28).
Plainly Prieto looks for the funny impact through the
exaggeration of the bounty, heterogeneity, discretion, and even the
impossibility of the articles housed in the room, however Prieto appears to me,
most importantly, to settle the scene of the written work of Payno. In this
room in which everything is cluttered, Payno's composition articulates a
pressure between the silly confusion of articles and the emblematic requesting
of the letter.
In this work I am keen on moving this composition scene to
the national scene and investigating the route in which Payno's written work is
exhibited as an endeavor to give importance and attachment to the objects of
that "scattered room" that is the country in the decades After
autonomy. Through the perusing of the annal "An outing to Veracruz in the
winter of 1843" (1844), I will suggest that Payno's travel writing
develops a "look" on the country that tries to characterize and
arrange the articles that constitute it Landscape, social legacy, workmanship,
history). 2 In my basic perusing of the narrative, Payno's desires for
composing a sentimental travelog 3 out of a Mexican setting - overwhelmed in
the 1840s by the current loss of Texas (1836) And furthermore, the development
of delineated magazines and the visual scenes got from the advances of optics:
dioramas, cosmoramas, displays. In that specific situation, I investigate the
allegorical allotment made by the diary in which the narrative, The Mexican
Museum, of the establishment of the gallery in what has amassing of learning
(gathering) and of request of the past (prehistoric studies), and in The
account of Payno, personally connected to the social venture of the magazine,
is illuminated in the emblematic accumulation of pictures: scenes, structures,
landmarks, workmanship, and investigating the sources of the Mexican country.
At long last, I recommend that, in the decision of the Mexico-Veracruz course,
as a result of its remoteness from the dangerous northern fringe and its
immersion of recorded and social substance, the venture of the European
sentimental excursion in Mexico is concretized, from one viewpoint , On the
other, the investigation of the chronicled thickness of the country. This is
not a work on the production of historical centers, but rather on the PC rule
that makes them conceivable.
The 1840s, which David Brading calls "the deplorable
decade" in light of the disorder of the Mexican state and the regional
misfortunes coming about because of the war with the United States, is a period
of extraordinary journalistic work for Manuel Payno. Previously, then after the
fact the American intrusion of 1848, Payno worked together in the most critical
social magazines of the time: The Mexican Museum (1843-1845), The Mexican
Ateneo (1844-1845), the Scientific and Literary Review of Mexico (1845-1846) -
where he distributed his first novel of the bulletin, El fistol del
diablo(1845) - and El Álbum Mexicano (1849).
This decade is likewise a time of steady go of Payno by the
nation and abroad. For his most committed biographer, the years from 1839 to
1841 are "annes de contemplations" (Duclas: 31), in which Payno
embraces an individual investigation and acknowledgment of his
"country." In 1839, from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, where he worked for
neighborhood traditions, he started an agenda that took him along the Rio Bravo
and various towns along the border.From these visits, Payno composed two
accounts, "Los comanches" and "El Rio Bravo del Norte". In
1841, toward the finish of his goes along the northern fringe, he came back to
Mexico City incidentally and, in the wake of dismissing Santa Anna's offer to
be sent as an ambassador to Brazil, he continued his goes in the nation
(Duclas: 47) . In 1842 he went through Guanajuato and Zacatecas. In 1843 Payno
lives, as Prieto depicted him, in the place of the distributer Ignacio
Cumplido, and devotes to composing articles for the Century Ten and Nine and
The Mexican Museum. In this same year he goes to Veracruz and composes the
annal that worries us in this work. In 1844 he is appointed to make a trek to
the United States to think about the jail framework and, after a stopover in
Havana, touches base in that nation in 1845. He comes back to Mexico toward the
finish of that year even with strengthened indications of war With the United
States. 5
The excursion as a classification
Payno travel happens in a standout amongst the most blasting
times of travel writing in Europe and Latin America in every one of its
perspectives: from the logical excursion of naturalists and scientistss to the
goes of voyaging specialists. From the mid-eighteenth century, different
European establishments, bolstered by the monetary and political energy of the
domains they spoke to, and furnished with new classificatory frameworks, left
on significant investigation and grouping activities of the idea of the world
(Pratt: 34). In these excursions gigantic accumulations of the greenery, the
fauna, the mineralogy of the areas went to were shaped that later were
incorporated to historical centers, greenhouses and zoological in Europe; And
in the meantime, ordered and systematized data offered prospects for the
financial abuse of the assets of those regions. Likewise, and regularly as
individuals from the logical undertakings, the voyager craftsmen recorded the
American scene and spoke to it from the sentimental style winning at the time
(González Echevarría: 154).
The most noticeable voyager in Latin America was without a
doubt the German researcher Alexander von Humboldt, whose work was generally
perused, talked about and acclimatized by Latin American educated elites amid
the initial two many years of the nineteenth century (Pratt: 119), however its
impact and eminence They kept on being felt consistently. In Mexico, where he
put in a year, from March 1803 to March 1804, Humboldt made a few investigation
trips (isolated into four primary courses: Acapulco, Real de Catorce,
Guanajuato, and Veracruz) and gave himself to chronicled look into in Mexico
City. His central work on the nation, the Political Essay on the Kingdom of New
Spain, distributed in different configurations in the vicinity of 1807 and
1811, and converted into Spanish in 1822, had an outstanding impact among
Mexican educated people, particularly as to their Observations on financial
matters, political association and the connection between social gatherings
(Miranda: 123). In the social angle, the Mexican magazines and daily papers of
the initial segment of the century, as they were "nationalizing"
their substance, turned to the huge data gathered by Humboldt amid his goes in
the nation; Frequently refered to his work on viewpoints identified with
Mexican nature, his archeological perceptions or his announcements about the
character of Mexicans.
After Humboldt, and now and again persuaded by the work of
the German researcher, numerous voyagers came to Mexico for different purposes,
some on logical mission, others with political interests, voyaging specialists
looking for the rich American nature, agents of mining organizations and amazed
wayfarers With the pre-Hispanic remains. 6 But additionally, the main free
governments shaped "exploratory commissions" that, following the
model of the European logical endeavors, they proposed the investigation of
zones of the domain about which little was known or that had geopolitical
significance right then and there. The most essential, for the territory that
he expected to investigate and for the degree he had, was the Boundary
Commission of 1827, drove by Manuel
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