Lina Beck–Bernard y Domingo Faustino Sarmiento en el punto de tangencia

Abstract

This article configures an approximation to a comparative study of Sarmiento and Lina Beck–Bernard’s personalities and ideas and seeks to find suggestive coincidences and differences not only in terms of their writings but also in the way they conveyed their actions and their incidence in the society and
political spectrum of their time. Regardless of the fact that they both belonged to culturally different worlds and came from very different backgrounds, when reading Sarmiento and Lina Beck–Bernard’s masterpieces, the reader can establish a common pattern of sociological theories that attests not
only to their subjectivities but also to the literary canons in vogue in the first and second half of the nineteenth century. In other words, the ideas of civilization and barbarism, the question of indigenous people and the literary treatment of descriptions around the notion of social and natural landscapes.