JUSTO SIERRA AND RUBÉN DARÍO IN (THE REMAINS OF) THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITIONS

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the chronicles written by two Latin American authors: Rubén Darío and Justo Sierra. Both visited the sites where two Universal Expositions had taken place after these events had concluded. The texts they produced in that context were published in two newspapers of the time: La Nación in the case of the Nicaraguan, and El Mundo in the case of the Mexican. We consider that these chronicles reflect the perspective of these modern subjectivities, allowing us to observe the complexity of two urban centers (Chicago and Paris) and, in this way, to glimpse the other side of that "desired modernity" to which Julio Ramos (2009) refers.