Comparación razonada de 4 ediciones del Diario del Che en Bolivia
Date
2015
Authors
Mortenson, Adriana Arguedas, author
Pedrós-Gascón, Antonio F., advisor
Purdy, Andrea, advisor
Purdy, Andrea, committee member
VanBuren, Mary, committee member
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Abstract
The Bolivian diaries of Che Guevara was first published in Havana, Cuba on July 1st 1968, and up to this day there has been several editions in Spanish as well as other languages. As a result of its distribution, Latin America was captivated by its content and it inspired many authors to write about the historical and political events that surrounded it. Some have written in favor of Che while others wrote against his Bolivian guerrilla. Likewise, one can find many theoretical analyses of the manuscript, as well as different arguments as to why the document represents the fall and/or victory of Che Guevara. Nevertheless, its literal content was never questioned once the authenticity of the text was proven, and everybody assumed that no modifications had been introduced between the first Cuban edition and the subsequent publications. The main objective of the present study is to contrast and compare four different editions of the Diary, published in different years and locations, in order to evaluate the differences between them, and to asses whether the editorials stayed true to the Cuban publication, as they have claimed, or if they made any changes (from spelling to formatting). Based on the findings, three main categories were created to indicate their nature: 1) grammatical (punctuation, spelling and agreement); 2) differences that affect the content (omissions and additions); and, 3) footnotes (similarities, differences and missing data). This thesis backs up the necessity to produce a new publication of the Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara that should be a trustworthy edition of the manuscript, and should contain updated footnotes with explanatory information. The methodology used for this study, comes from the following four editions: 1) Instituto del libro cubano (ICL); 2) the Chilean magazine Punto Final (PF); 3) editorial Siglo XXI (XXI) from Mexico City; and 4) the compilation from the Bolivian Carlos Soria Galvarro (SG). The closest source to the original manuscript was used as the base for the comparison, mainly the Cuban edition ICL, however, whenever possible, photocopies of the original manuscript included in ICL and SG were used. The publication by the newspaper El Diario from La Paz, Bolivia, on July 12th, 1968 was used for the 13 missing pages or dates. In order to keep track of the variances, a table was created for each category and for each day during the 11 months of guerrilla, where the changes where marked in bold letters to help the differentiation.
Description
Text in Spanish; title page and abstract in Spanish and English.