The War of Paraguay against the Triple Alliance. Historical memory and search for the identity foundations

The war of Paraguay against the Triple alliance is the national-state identity central element. The war fought a century and a half ago had catastrophically devastated the country thus being the most powerful traumatic event for Paraguayan society. The six months long dispute on the Paraguayan war causes and consequences between J. O'Leary and C. Baez in 1902 constitutes the turning point in the historical revisionism development. The rehabilitation of Marshal F.S. Lopez after the 1936 February Revolution had finished the gradual process of reassessing the past and opened a new page in the country's political life. Throughout the entire authoritarian period, historical concept by J.O'Leary, later called as the "Paraguayan revisionism", served as the ideological basis for authoritarian power and for the A.Stroessner dictatorship reinforcement. This doctrine is no longer relevant to the current democratic period ideology. However, it still persists as a historical narrative underlying national-state identity. The resulting contradiction has an important impact on the nature of modernization, the foreign policy trajectory and has a conflict potential for public discussions about the past. At the same time, the ongoing changes are shaping the need to identity narratives change.

Keywords

Paraguay, identity, collective memory, cultural trauma, Paraguayan war

Acknowledgment

The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-014-00042.

Received

23.04.2021

Publication date

24.01.2022

Number of characters

35168

Cite

GOST	Kudeyarova N. The War of Paraguay against the Triple Alliance. Historical memory and search for the identity foundations // Latin America – 2022. – Issue 1 C. 23-37 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://latamerica-journal.ru/S0044748X0013612-2-1 (circulation date: 10.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0044748X0013612-2
MLA	Kudeyarova, Nadezhda Yu. "The War of Paraguay against the Triple Alliance. Historical memory and search for the identity foundations." Latin America 1 (2022):23-37. DOI: 10.31857/S0044748X0013612-2
APA	Kudeyarova N. (2022). The War of Paraguay against the Triple Alliance. Historical memory and search for the identity foundations. Latin America (1 ), pp.23-37 DOI: 10.31857/S0044748X0013612-2

100 rub.

When subscribing to an article or issue, the user can download PDF, evaluate the publication or contact the author. Need to register.

Number of purchasers: 0, views: 345

Readers community rating: votes 0

1. Telesca I. La población en Paraguay tras la guerra. Última Hora, 31.10.2015. Available at: https://www.ultimahora.com/la-poblacion-paraguay-la-guerra-n943084.html (accessed 17.08.2020).

2. La población de Paraguay. Asunción, CPES - CICRED, 1974, 198 p.

3. Le Goff Zh. Istoriya i pamyat'. M., Rossijskaya politicheskaya ehntsiklopediya, 2013, 303 s.

4. Khal'bvaks M. Sotsial'nye ramki pamyati. M., Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2007, 348 s.

5. Khal'bvaks M. Kollektivnaya i istoricheskaya pamyat', Neprikosnovennyj zapas, M., 2005, № 2, ss. 8-27.

6. Safronova Yu.A. Istoricheskaya pamyat': vvedenie. SPb., Izdatel'stvo Evropejskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2020, 224 s.

7. Assman Ya. Kul'turnaya pamyat': Pis'mo, pamyat' o proshlom i politicheskaya identichnost' v vysokikh kul'turakh drevnosti. M., Yazyki slavyanskoj kul'tury, 2004, 368 s.

8. Assman A. Dlinnaya ten' proshlogo. Memorial'naya kul'tura i istoricheskaya politika. M., Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2014, 328 s.

9. Anderson B. Voobrazhaemye soobschestva. M., Kanon-Press-Ts, Kuchkovo pole, 2001, 286 s.

10. Aleksander Dzh. Kul'turnaya travma i kollektivnaya identichnost', Sotsiologicheskij zhurnal, M., 2012, № 3, ss. 6-40.

11. Khobsbaum Eh. Izobretenie traditsij. Vestnik Evrazii, M., 2000, №1, ss. 47-62.

12. Pusineri A. Las luchas politico-democraticas atraves de la prensa y la convencion nacional constituyente de 1870, Diálogos - Revista do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Maringá, 2005, vol. 9, N 2, pp. 37-65. Available at: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3055/305526442002.pdf (accessed 17.08.2020).

13. Mariñaz Otero L. Las constituciónes del Paraguay. Madrid, Ediciones Cultura Hispánica del Centro Iberoamericano de cooperación, 1978, 280 p.

14. González de Bosio B. La Legión Paraguaya. Asunción, 2014, 149 p. Available at: http://www.corredordelasideas.org/docs/ppt/legion_paraguaya.pdf (accessed 19.02.2021).

15. Báez C., O'Leary J.E. Polémica sobre la Historia del Paraguay. Asunción, Tiempo de Historia, 2011, 472 p.

16. Benisz C.D. El campo intelectual del post-stronismo: las polémicas entre Augusto Roa Bastos y la intelectualidad liberal. Rosirio, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2016, 343 p.

17. Brezzo L.M. El historiador y el general: imposiciones y disensos en torno a la interpretación pública de la historia en Paraguay. Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Paris, 2014. Available at: https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67479 (accessed 19.02.2021).

18. Langa Pizarro M.M. Guido Rodríguez Alcalá en el contexto de la narrativa histórica paraguaya. Alicante, Universidad de Alicante, 2001, 445 p.

19. Rodríguez Alcalá G. La sombra de O’Leary. ABC Color, 19.06. 2019.

20. Velázquez Seiferheld D. La herencia autoritaria en la educación paraguaya. La Nación. 02.02.2020. Available at: https://www.lanacion.com.py/gran-diario-domingo/2020/02/02/la-herencia-autoritaria-en-la-educacion-paraguaya/?fbclid=IwAR1lqxXDEXUdZvuFbk5w6cm BcNjJGdtDOh5YErGayBvb7bYHLVdKxVFivQ (accessed 22.02.2021).

21. Caballero Campos H. El nacionalismo en el Paraguay. La labor historiográfica de Juan Stefanich. Actas digitales del XXXII Encuentro de Geo historia Regional, Resistencia, IIGHI, 2013, rr. 243-258. Available at: http://repositorio.unne.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/123456789/ 925/IIGHI_EGHR_2012_32.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. (accessed 23.12.2020).

22. Jeifets V., Jeifets L. The Comintern and the Communist Party of Paraguay, a Permanent Disagreement, Izquierdas, 2019, t. 45, pp. 160-184.

23. Velázquez D. Educación, memoria y autoritarismo – Historia y memoria del Stronismo en la educación paraguaya (1989–2019). Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, 24.02.2020. Available at: https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/79615 (accessed 17.08.2020).

24. Acosta Garbarino A. Las herencias de Stroessner. Ultima Hora, 04.05.2014. Available at: https://www.ultimahora.com/las-herencias-stroessner-n791685.html (accessed 17.08.2020).

25. Sheler M. Resentiment v strukture moralej. SPb., Nauka, Universitetskaya kniga, 1999. 233 s.

26. Kudeyarova N.Yu. Paragvaj: demokraticheskij tranzit bez peredachi vlasti. Latinoamerikanskij istoricheskij al'manakh, 2019, № 24, s. 188-210.

27. Polémica por la obra de teatro “Las Locuras del Mariscal”. La Nación, 14.06.2019. Available at: https://www.lanacion.com.py/espectaculo_edicion_impresa/2019/06/14/polemica-por-la-obra-de-teatro-las-locuras-del-mariscal/ (accessed 18.08.2020).