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The purpose of this article is to analyze the meaning and uses of the written word in the works of José Artigas. This discursive body, situated between oral and written culture, between the Enlightenment discourse of liberal revolutions and the tradition of "caudillismo", constitutes itself as an "other" space of representation, whose legitimacy is not granted solely by the learned or the popular element, but rather, by a peculiar inflection of both. The article is divided into two parts. The first one analyzes the role of writing as a cultural practice in the context of Artigas discourse; the second one analyzes the discursive strategies used to construct that entity known as "people" as one of the legitimating axes of his discourse, on the basis of some of Artigas's most significant texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a critical reading of Vida de Joaquin Murrieta, the Mexican publication of the American novel written by Cherokee author Yellow Bird, translated by the Chilean Carlos Lopez Urrutia. The objective is to situate this novel about the legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta, active during the California Gold Rush, in the context of a long literary and extra-literary debate over the character, a debate which most notably includes a novel often attributed to the Mexican Ireneo Paz, Vida y aventuras del más célébré bandido sonorense, Joaquin Murrieta: sus grandes proezas en California, Fulgory muerte de Joaquin Murieta, the cantata by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (for whom Murieta and not Murrieta is Chilean rather than Mexican), and a series of frontier "corridos", among other texts. This evaluation applies the "radical contextualization" methodology typical of cultural studies, which takes into account not only the spaces of production (which, in this case, include the translation) but also the dissemination and reception of the text, challenging the classical boundaries of the most traditional sector of the field of literary studies which relies on nationalist and elitist schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]