ENUNCIACIÓN, ESTRATEGIA ELECTORAL Y SUBALTERNIDAD: NOTAS ACERCA DE LA RETÓRICA POLÍTICA ESTADOUNIDENSE EN LA RAZA CÓSMICA DE JOSÉ VASCONCELOS.

This paper analyzes the symbolic matrix of the North-American political discourse developed by José Vasconcelos in his essay La ra%a cósmica (1925). Vas-concelos' essay contains a paradox: The semiotic and ideological constant incidence of the North-American political discourse in his own thesis on Latinamericanism and anti-North-americanism--these thesis are summarized in Vasconcelos' concepts of misión [Mission] and destino manifiesto [Manifest Destiny], The aproppiation of this North-American Rethoric is determined by two reasons: on one hand, Vasconcelos' subaltern experience; on the other hand, Vasconcelos' strategy to get political support from the North-American community. This paradox could be explained by the notion of enunciation--as developed by E. Benveniste and re-developed under the paradigm of Post-Colonial Studies. According to my reading, in Vasconcelos' essay, under the North-American rethoric, there are two underlying motivations: Vasconcelos' symbolic Split, and the "significant double intention" of his politic enunciation. Keywords-, enunciation, symbolic split, Mission and Manifest Destiny, Latin-Americanism, post-colonialism, anti-North-Americanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]