Aproximación a ciertas nociones de historicidad en la prensa colombiana durante la Independencia e inicios de la República en Colombia (1810-1827)

Abstract

Mediante un estudio sistemático de la prensa publicada en distintas ciudades de la actual Colombia durante la Independencia y los primeros años de la república de Colombia (llamada por los historiadores Gran Colombia, para no confundirla con la actual) se analiza el contenido de los conceptos utilizados por los colaboradores y editores de los periódicos tratando de entender la semántica de nociones relacionadas con la historicidad, entre otros: historia, devenir, tiempo, permanencia y cambio; pasado, presente y futuro. Se muestran las evidencias de temporalidad propias del proceso revolucionario a partir de 1810, analizando la aceleración de los acontecimientos y su frecuencia, que dificultaba a los ciudadanos su registro y discernimiento.

Through a systematic study of the press published in different cities of present-day Colombia during the Independence and the first years of the Republic of Colombia (called by historians Gran Colombia, not to confuse it with the current one), the content of the concepts used by newspaper contributors and editors trying to understand the semantics of notions related to historicity, among others: history, future, time, permanence and change, past, present and future. It shows the evidence of temporality that allow to locate a revolutionary process from 1810, which implied the speed of events and its succession, which made it difficult to register and discern. Reason why, appeared the first newspapers, interested in not letting out any important event. It was possible to verify the coexistence and overlap of two regimes of historicity, the first Ciceronian who sought to teach and moralize, history magistra vitae, and the second, modern court, with emphasis on a changing history, made in part by men, and determined by concepts and passions that, by becoming opinions accepted by the greater part of the community, provoke the appearance of the individuals necessary to lead to the new, the unpublished and the best.