La construcción de la imagen heroica a través del discurso periodístico. El caso de la activista peruana María Elena Moyano.
This work tries to demonstrate that the social construction of the national hero/heroine as a symbol of courage and resistance generally arises within a period of social, political, and economic crisis. The national hero is a construction that is created in a moment characterized by the loss of publ...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de los Andes
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Historia Crítica |
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| Online Access: | http://historiacritica.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/531/1.php#** |
| Summary: | This work tries to demonstrate that the social construction of the national hero/heroine as a symbol of courage and resistance generally arises within a period of social, political, and economic crisis. The national hero is a construction that is created in a moment characterized by the loss of public trust and the failure of government leaders to act. The creation of the heroic image functions as a sociopolitical tool. The article suggests that there is a close relationship between the history and the construction of heroic fgures. Using the death of Peruvian activist María Elena Moyano as a concrete example, it demonstrates that journalistic discourse has the ability to create an heroic image around a person who has been given the traditional role that the hero has played in society since Antiquity. |
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| ISSN: | 0121-1617 1900-6152 |