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literature.
Students:
Diana Carolina Torres vila
Reyvan Steve Reyes Beltrn
Jeison Medina Higuera
Johan Andrs Salazar Chacn
Social Imaginaries shift along the transition of history and the labour of
the author is to depict that reality in what they write. Defining imaginary as:
the thinking shared within a society by ordinary people, the common
understanding that makes common practices possible and legitimizes them.
(Taylor, 2002) Thinking that includes: the set of values, institutions, laws, and
symbols. We aim to address this reality from two perspectives the historical
and the social, but keeping in mind that this realities are inseparable. The
process of writing is in itself history; it forms part of it as any other action
could, and in most of the cases is the
society or at least a part of it the individual (the writer) who cannot avoid
leaving behind even the smallest fragment of their personality or beliefs
system. That is why throughout this essay, literature will be analyzed as a
recording of history, as a legacy for humanity and how the social imaginaries
are exposed through literature.
the appropriate manner to behave were painted through the words of the
author according to the time and geography of the author: the Revolutionary
period, and in the case of Irvings Rip Van Winkle, which reflects two different
periods of American history and two different ideals: on one hand, we have
the British yoke in the colonial times and on the other hand, the sense of
revolution and freedom as an independent republic.
In addition, the more time passes, the more changes occur in history,
every racial and social group wants to show their perspectives through
literature. An example of this continuous change is the Harlem renaissance,
where the black community begins to express another side of the American
history, which is the suffering of that community and their recognition of the
existence of the black community in literature.
words in a paper and the words of a society and its imaginaries through the
history.
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