La Mista a long story in the history of Venezuela
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José Rafael Pocaterra, Epaminondas, La Mista, historical moments of VenezuelaAbstract
José Rafael Pocaterra, one of the most significant writers of Venezuelan literature, tells us in his Cuentos grotescos (1922), the vicissitudes and hardships he suffered along with the people. In this sense, the general objective of this research is to highlight the symbolic role of his eloquent character Epaminondas of the story La mista, a small town teacher, as the most authentic representation of the unfulfilled illusions of the people throughout its history, thus, it seeks to demonstrate its transcendence in the collective imaginary. Therefore, a tour is given through certain historical moments of Venezuela, being our starting point the colonial period, the independence period, the republican agro-exporting period of the 19th century and the republican oil-exporting period of the 20th century. To discuss these periods, we developed a research of documentary nature, framed in a qualitative methodology, and theoretically framed on the works of Silva Luongo (2005) and Silva and Moncada (2009).
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