The national government used military conscription to support frontier warfare with native peoples. Private ranches increasingly took over the vast, flat grasslands they inhabited. Benson Latin American Collection.Īt the time of the poem’s publication, Argentina’s gauchos, the nomadic horsemen and cowherds that roamed the Pampas of central Argentina, were a maligned and disappearing group. From left: Editions of Martín Fierro in Arabic, Guaraní, Spanish, and German. In spring 2022, graduate research assistants Melissa Aslo de la Torre and Janette Núñez organized an exhibition in honor of the poem’s sesquicentennial in the Rare Books Reading Room of the Benson Latin American Collection. IT HAS BEEN 150 YEARS since the publication of Argentina’s renowned epic poem, El gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández. Courtesy Benson Latin American Collection. Color lithograph by Carlos Alonso depicting the unnamed Black characters who later face violence at the hands of Martín Fierro, from a 1960 edition of El gaucho Martín Fierro y La vuelta de Martín Fierro.
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