Contra el “exclusivismo argentino”: los intelectuales venezolanos y sus esfuerzos por custodiar la vida y obra de Simón Bolívar (1910-1930)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which different Venezuelan intellectuals embarked, between 1910 and 1930, on the task of revising, consecrating, and extending a particular version of Simón Bolívar and his role in the defeat of the royalist cause and the construction of a republican order in Hispanic America. Specifically, it focuses on the historiographical disputes they had with important Argentine literary figures considered responsible for spreading an anti-Bolivarian and “exclusivist” discourse aimed at eroding the image of the Liberator to the benefit of the Argentine nation and hero.