BETWEEN THE MYTH OF MISCEGENATION AND THE 19TH CENTURY 'COMMERCIAL EMPORIUM' IN RODRIGO MIRÓ ; ENTRE EL MITO DEL MESTIZAJE Y EL 'EMPORIO COMERCIAL' DEL SIGLO XIX EN RODRIGO MIRÓ

With and through Rodrigo Miró the impulse to build a 'feeling of tradition' is observed both with 'miscegenation' - that is, founding the nation through an idea of ethnicity - and with the organization and evaluation of the 19th century, of his essayists and newspapers despite the fact that Miró did not exactly coincide with the "free trade" and pragmatic universe of turning Panama into a "commercial emporium": "pro mundi profit. Indeed, on the one hand, Miró was neither the first nor the last to want to create this 'feeling of tradition' with the so-called 'miscegenation'. But, on the other hand, he was the most conspicuous archon in systematically working on the organization of the colonial and nineteenth-century archive. An archive that would create the 'feeling of tradition' with an aspect that, for Miró, was central to its construction: Panama was not only a land of adventurers and poets, but also of essayists, of reflection, which produced essays that deserved the It is worth being rescued, published and promoted, as Justo Arosemena makes known in his Theory of the Fatherland of 1947. This 19th century organization, through the written press, carried out by Miró and other researchers, also opens another question research. That is, the place of blacks and Antillean immigration, how only their presence problematizes 'miscegenation', their contribution to the press and journalism in the creation of a space and intellectual representation since the 19th century, a point that would open a new chapter in understanding the cultural landscape in the country. ; Con y a través de Rodrigo Miró se observa el impulso por construir un 'sentimiento de tradición' tanto con el 'mestizaje' ‒ es decir, fundamentar la nación por intermedio de una idea de la etnia ‒ como con la organización y evaluación del siglo XIX, de sus ensayistas y periódicos a pesar de que Miró no coincidía precisamente con el universo 'librecambista' y pragmático de convertir a Panamá en un 'emporio comercial': 'Pro Mundi Beneficio'. En efecto, por un ...