Lucio V. Mansilla en el Paraguay: un territorio propio

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of a collection of articles by Lucio V. Mansilla in which the author describes Paraguay as a field of experiences and a scenario of observations, as well as a territory that is part of his own world, while at the same time expands this map. Without including articles related to the Paraguayan War, we present several texts published between 1878 and 1889 and organize them in two main series: on the one hand, those where we read the narrative forms and images that Mansilla essayed as an explorer in his expedition to the country of gold; on the other hand, we present the political and cultural representations about pre- and post-war Paraguay in which Mansilla intervened as a foreign traveler, also in the post-war years.