Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)

Abstract The Mexican weekly El Mono (February 1833-June 1833) was a short-lived conservative satirical newspaper that launched a sustained attack against the liberal government Valentín Gómez Farías and Antonio López de Santa Anna. Sustained by a mode of satire that it drew from a 1749 novel by Ital...

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Autor principal: Gutiérrez Negrón,Sergio
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Publicado: Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano.Escuela de Historia 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0719-569920200001000172021-01-04Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)Gutiérrez Negrón,Sergio Zavaleta Agreements Conservatism Satire Valentín Gómez Farías Antonio López de Santa Anna Abstract The Mexican weekly El Mono (February 1833-June 1833) was a short-lived conservative satirical newspaper that launched a sustained attack against the liberal government Valentín Gómez Farías and Antonio López de Santa Anna. Sustained by a mode of satire that it drew from a 1749 novel by Italian Counter Enlightenment satirist Zaccaria Seriman, El Mono’s editors undermined the conceptual foundations of liberal politics: popular sovereignty, public opinion and political action. Ultimately, for the editors, liberal politics responded neither to logic nor rational ideas, but to private vices. Thus, they held that the only stable grounds for society was morality, tradition and custom. In this paper, I show how this critique could only be developed through the use of Juvenalian satire. It is the immanent logic of this form of satire which structures El Mono’s critique and which, as a result of the newspapers’ popularity and effectiveness, went on to become integral to future conservative discourse in Mexico.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano.Escuela de HistoriaTiempo histórico n.20 20202020-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-56992020000100017en10.25074/th.v0i20.1728
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topic Zavaleta Agreements
Conservatism
Satire
Valentín Gómez Farías
Antonio López de Santa Anna
spellingShingle Zavaleta Agreements
Conservatism
Satire
Valentín Gómez Farías
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Gutiérrez Negrón,Sergio
Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)
description Abstract The Mexican weekly El Mono (February 1833-June 1833) was a short-lived conservative satirical newspaper that launched a sustained attack against the liberal government Valentín Gómez Farías and Antonio López de Santa Anna. Sustained by a mode of satire that it drew from a 1749 novel by Italian Counter Enlightenment satirist Zaccaria Seriman, El Mono’s editors undermined the conceptual foundations of liberal politics: popular sovereignty, public opinion and political action. Ultimately, for the editors, liberal politics responded neither to logic nor rational ideas, but to private vices. Thus, they held that the only stable grounds for society was morality, tradition and custom. In this paper, I show how this critique could only be developed through the use of Juvenalian satire. It is the immanent logic of this form of satire which structures El Mono’s critique and which, as a result of the newspapers’ popularity and effectiveness, went on to become integral to future conservative discourse in Mexico.
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title Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)
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title_full Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)
title_fullStr Satire and the lie of politics: El Mono (México, 1833)
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